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Vagrant is so slow on my MacBook that I never use it. We always set up Vagrant in our new projects at work but I just run stuff on my host machine because I can't stand waiting for the initial Vagrant setup, processes to start, tests to run, servers to respond, etc.
AJAX?

Not having to render and reload an entire page every time something changes or a request is made is actually quite useful. Load balancing is one of the reasons js-based templates are so popular.

Also I believe there are aspects of cross-browser compatibility related to mobile design and responsive design which depend on javascript, though I may be mostly wrong.
It's certainly an interesting idea to try and fund a social network on micro-transactions alone.

It should be interesting to see what functionality they link to micro-transactions; Most games seem to do this with 'skins' and other aesthetic options, but if they go over the top in that respect it could easily become 'messy' like MySpace.

I do expect there might be a different demographic of privacy concious users who may be willing to donate in effect should the service gain traction.
Compare this with an IDE highlighting this immediately when you write the offending line. In your workflow you have to run a test to identify this issue, then go back and fix it. It certainly doesn't leave you stuck but you are incurring additional overhead in that you actually have to run tests to discover there's a problem and then remediate it.
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I suspect you may be my coworker.
I know in Lubbock something similar was in the news a while. It had more to do with city health code violation than anything else and the matter seemed to die down. It's interesting because a church was doing the feeding and I didn't think the city would do such a thing considering how conservative and religious this city is. I rather see the food being eaten rather than being thrown away. I have nothing against the homeless except for the rare ones who get angry when I say I will buy them food rather than hand money over. There's also Tent City here in the 806 which is a congregation of homeless who sleep in tents and I haven't heard much trouble there. Now the homeless in San Francisco are a different story. I didn't want to believe it since SF is such a lovely city but damn, the homeless there are aggressive as hell. That's just my experience though.
Interesting to see two articles on the same subject posted with about a week between, one about being a "mom" in Y Combinator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456258), and this one about being a "dad" in Y Combinator.
Now that Apple has killed flash in so many use-cases, I think it would be palatable for major browsers to start forcing plugins like Flash, Java, Silverlight, and Unity to be "click to activate".
I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll just say it outright: I find this to be deeply wrong and even morally offensive. I just don't know how else to characterize the idea that the homeless need to be treated like cattle for their own good.

I feel like Doc Cochran, in Deadwood

Al Swearengen: What the fuck are we talking about?

Doc Cochran: A man being cared for and made comfortable 'til he expires. Girls you put to the task, deduct your time from my pay.

Al Swearengen: I get the bag of shit.
Doc Cochran: You get to care for a human being in his last extremity.

Al Swearengen: A human being in his last extremity IS a bag of shit.

Doc Cochran: Aw, FUCK YOU AL!

Any way, with that said, homelessness _is_ a difficult problem, and, yes, some of the homeless _are_ bags of shit. But a lot of them aren't, and it isn't fair to treat all the homeless the same way.

I certainly don't have all the answers. But I have to believe that America, with it's wealth and power, can do a lot better.
Sure.

Upon review, I made it sound like you were suggesting that it should be changed; but you hadn't, and had only pointed out the contextual awkwardness. I apologize.
What is the room for not buying anything at all?
I don't want to share interest in any product.

I would like to see an ancient greek thinker comming to one of theses rooms and wondering what are people talking about here.
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I'd love to know how he paid his mortgage while in YC. We're a single income family. My co-founder is single and his financial liabilities are nearly zero (he's a minimalist) so he could make it work. Do you just burn savings?

Lastly, what if you lost all of your savings in your previous startup? asking for a friend ;)
Could not agree more! We have an mainly internal-only app that I work on that started out as PHP+HTML+CSS only and then over the years JS has been bolted on in various places. At first it was just to make life easier (Autocomplete, minor AJAX) but now we have entire components that will not function without JS and could not function without JS. Recently some devs have pushed for supporting browsers without JS enabled and I have been vehemently against it for a couple reasons:

1) MAJOR parts of our app will not and can not work without JS. Period, exclamation point.

2) Because of point 1 it doesn't make sense to waste dev time on making some views work with/without JS (We are a younger company and don't have time to waste on something like this especially when it isn't public-facing, not to mention QA can't handle testing everything twice).

3) Even if V1 of a component does support both JS and no JS there is no guarantee that future updates will be able to keep feature-parity or have time to code for that.

For me JS is part of the web, not an optional add-on. It would be like saying "make a webpage that works with HTML" (IMHO).

I also feel that it's not fair to complain about the GOOGLE CHROME app store requiring GASP GOOGLE CHROME (Same for GOOGLE cloud print). Not shit sherlock. As for Apple not allowing their video feeds on anything but Safari+OS X I think this is BS, there is no good reason I can think of to alienate so many people on other OS's especially since I would think THOSE are the people you might want to reach with your keynotes to convince them why they should switch.

So while I like the idea of this Tumblr I can't help but think the JS/Google Chrome examples don't really fit and distract from the overall message. To be honest looking through the Tumblr again the ONLY valid concern is the one with Apple's keynote streaming, the other ones make complete sense. How is it Google's fault that they are pushing the envelope in terms of what is possible, even Google doesn't have the time/resources to make every one of their ideas (which may or may not make it long term) work across the board and that is their prerogative.
When even companies like Facebook and Twitter have revenue concerns, I think Ello has an extraordinary task ahead of it.

I'm not saying it's impossible, they could probably find a way to become a break-even business easily, but taking venture capital puts a lot of added pressure on them.
If you use progressive enhancement, you don't really need two versions. You have the base version, and you layer javascript and css on top of it. Granted, it might be a bit more work than just rushing out a javascript-dependent version, but it's definitely not twice the work. And you then have a much better structured, more solid base to work on - in the long-run, I'd be surprised if it weren't less work to do things the progressive way.
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Y-Combinator's expectation for start-ups is that they are to be "all-consuming"

Yes. If your wife is pregnant, she's expected to have an abortion so she can concentrate on the business.
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> It seems it has lost whatever popularity it once had

Popularity is always a problematic metric for platform evaluation, because the programming community generally has a very short attention span. I would attribute the lack of marketing to the previous license fight, work towards platform stability of version 2.x, and work on the upcoming version 3.0.

> a polygot application framework sounds like the ideal way to use the right tool for the job.

Vert.x is not completely polyglot. It supports many languages, but they all must compile to JVM byte code to work within the platform's event-loop/thread-pool management. So, the Javascript must run on Rhino or Nashorn, the Ruby must run in JRuby, the Python must run in Jython, etc.
Isn't that illegal?. The H4 can't work (even part-time) until they have a H1 in hand.
From FTDI's point of view, their driver's are not free, they are distributed for use by FTDI customers. FTDI doesn't want their drivers to run on non-FTDI chips regardless of whether they are marketed as real FTDI chips or not.

Counterfeit isn't the issue here so much as competing non-FTDI chips relying on FTDI to do the hard and expensive work of developing drivers for them.

Bricking non-FTDI hardware was extreme and guaranteed to make people angry. I wonder what the reaction would be if FTDI had instead made the driver not work on non-FTDI chips unless the end customer bought a license key from FTDI to use their drivers.
> It seems like a full blown node/npm running on the jvm would be useful...

sounds almost like http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/
SSL configuration are a pain, especially across multiple sites. Even if you can afford a full dev team, case and point: https://blog.docker.com/
I like roughly this.

One issue: how do you disburse the income? What happens if someone blows it all on drugs, and then is out? We're sort of back where we started. Could we then just let the person starve or whatever, and say, "well you had your chance."? Push comes to shove, I don't think I could.

My solution: Government provided withdrawal systems (ATMs or something like that), that provide $27/day (to use your number). Most people who unwisely spent their $27 could manage to wait another day and then get food.

Problem: How do you pay for all this?

Solution: A low-percentage wealth (aka capital) tax. It's a redistribution of wealth, but if you outearn/outinvest the rate, then you can accumulate wealth. Could then do away with estate taxes. Ideally I'd cap the Basic Income Guarantee as a percentage of this wealth tax, evenly distributed, and not a fixed number. As the society gets richer/poorer so does the distribution.

Then, just add in single payer health insurance, and remove minimum wage, social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare, and all sorts of other systems and we have my socialist/libertarian paradise. : )
Whatever happened to "progressive enhancement"? It's possible to build a very rich experience around standard HTML+CSS and then enhance it with Javascript. This is how much of Github works. I'm not saying you should always take that approach, but if you're a small company with limited resources you can still choose which route you want to go down, and if you choose "progressive enhancement" then you have a site you know will (mostly) work without JS, without having to do any extra work on top of you usual development process. Rich companies can, of course, take both routes, but if you're going to build a javascript-heavy site you should at least understand the trade-offs and alternatives before you dive in head-first.
Yes, that's the ideal. Try and do it. Remember to test all the different progressively enhanced paths that only a tiny minority of your users is using.
If any of you all are in San Francisco. There's a meetup I'm in that watches them as a group. http://www.meetup.com/Ycombinators-Stanford-lectures/
Sorry, I should amend that last statement to be using the model Apple is using with it's touch ID where the fingerprint simply authenticates use of a high entropy password stored on the device, and the datum of the fingerprint is in not sent.
> In this specific case, I think Germany is the only exception, but to me it makes perfectly sense: sensitive personal data like medical records should not circulate outside the country.

Having a computer on German soil does not mean that

1) the packets themselves will not travel outside Germany (hint: AMS-IX);

2) people interested in the data contained in that computer will not read it, store it, use it outside Germany.

From the technology point of view, country borders do not exist. (Unless you force a country-wide firewall).

If sensitive data must be properly encrypted. Once it is encrypted you can store it everywhere you want.
Yes, there are apt repos available. Also yum repos (see links and docs at http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu/downloads).

On x86, if you can measure performance diffs between same-version OpenJDK/Zulu and OracleJDK, you are probably measuring noise. Zulu is simply a binary build of OpenJDK. As far as we can tell, the performance is identical because the source is the same.
"I also feel that it's not fair to complain about the GOOGLE CHROME app store requiring GASP GOOGLE CHROME"

I read that as complaining about a WEB APP store requiring google chrome. Web apps tied to a specific browser are destructive to the overall ecosystem; you might as well just distribute native apps.
I think Patrick was being ironic. People who tell you VCs like defensible IP don't really know what they are talking about. VCs really like companies that are taking off in terms of traction. That has nothing to do with defensible IP.
It's interesting that others in the thread have implied that I'm not spending enough time on my startup and will be out-hustled.

My wife and I both work. So, we have our kid in daycare. 5:30-8:30 is actually 100% of the time from daycare pickup until she goes to sleep. If she doesn't go to sleep until 9:30, then that means I'm with her until then.

On the weekends, I work while she naps or is having one on one time with her mom.

My point is that I'm spending as close to 100% of the hours I have with my kid.

I grew up in Green Bay, WI (about as non-bubble as you can get) with a dad who worked nights. Once I was in school, I'd see him at dinners only. But he made every soccer game I was in. He had to make choices between his career and his family. And I think he did an excellent job of it. His time with me, though less than my mom's, was always attentive. We have a great relationship. I think he made the right choices for our family.

This isn't just a Valley issue...I just happen to be in the Valley. Many parents struggle with how to make the tradeoffs between work and family. My hope in sharing my situation is that others can get another perspective and maybe take away a thing or two to try.
I worked on this project and we've been quite concerned with this issue. I definitely hope people will come away with a clear sense of their risks and of what the tools do and don't do.

I wrote most of this section

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/problem-mobile-phones

which is about threats and risks which in many cases we don't have good ways to mitigate, and I tried to be fairly thorough. For example, we don't have an unambiguously good and convenient way to mitigate handset location tracking, burner phone detection, or compromise of baseband processors. So I hope people will read those parts too and get a sense of perspective!

I also tried to make sure that the sections about PGP mention unprotected metadata, unprotected subject lines, and the lack of forward secrecy (compromising your private key will let someone go back and read your old messages). The PGP sections still need another editing pass to unify the content better across platforms, but a lot of those risks do get mentioned somewhere.

If you can think of other analogous sections we should write about risks that are hard to mitigate, I'm glad to write them! And if you can find things in the existing document that you feel give people a false sense of security, please let us know and we can try to fix them.

I realize that there's a pretty serious risk that any security guide will make people feel like they "did the right thing" and are communicating safely, then still get compromised. We are always struggling with the pull of "privacy nihilism" that would lead people to simply use plaintext communications over the Internet and GSM network because there are (for example) vulnerabilities in their OS or baseband, or because most encryption tools don't protect metadata. It's challenging to know what to say about risk when surveillance is a multi-billion-dollar industry and a lot of very smart people have made an entire career out of it.

One point of view is that a lot of the mitigations really need to come from the platform developers, so desktop and mobile OSes need to ship with more crypto out of the box, turned on by default, in the default communication tools, etc., and hire a lot more vulnerability researchers. If you favor that point of view, I definitely encourage you to try to push things along from that direction too!
No... that's not really the effect of no rent control. In fact rent control is often the cause of excessive credit checks, proof of employment, etc. Maybe in the short run no rent control would make disproportionate high rents, but not in the long run. In fact it's the opposite. No rent control results in something like Hong Kong: abundant, extremely tiny apartments that people can afford. That may not be ideal, but it's certainly better than being homeless.

Luxury apartments are lucrative, sure, but if you can fit more rooms into a given space you can often make even more money. For example if you could have 1 apartment and charge $3000, or 2 apartments and charge $1700, the 2 apartments are a better deal.
Getting those was absolutely awesome. Especially since in my mind a beefy system was two 8 core procs. He was like "yeah...... hang on let me find you something better". Will do.
Mental health is definitely a part of the homeless problem, but it's not the majority. 37% of homeless in SF are reported to have a mental illness. Whether or not that's the primary cause in those 37%, is another question.

Source: http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4...
If Chain implemented the LiveResource protocol, then the JS library could work with it, sure. Their Bitcoin address objects seem to support ETags properly so the groundwork is done.
I'm used to AWS pricing but I'm still a little fuzzy on how AWS VPC pricing works.

It is $0.05 per VPN Connection-hour. But in this context what is a "VPN connection?" Do you literally just set up your cloud for "free" (aside from paying for instances, etc) and then only pay $0.05 for every hour you spend connected to the private cloud externally?

Does the VPC have any external visibility aside from the VPN connections? And if it does, what is stopping you just setting up your own VPN server and bypassing the $0.05/hour rate?
I agree with you strongly. I grew to hate the ecosystem of capitalism for the very reasons you stated.

> The whole world benefits at a cost to the company itself, though. It's not surefire either way, but the company is more likely to survive if it is selfish than if it plays charitably.

Sometimes it's a matter of choosing a business model. There are companies (Basho comes to mind) that do serious open-source work and take money for consulting/support. But I'd hazard a guess such models are only possible because IT is not competitive enough. As competition in any field gets more intense everything tends to degenerate, as those unwilling to sacrifice some value in exchange for profit get outcompeted by those who do. Governments are there to offset some of those problems with regulations, but this has a whole other set of issues.
from 2004-2010 or so it was definitively the case.

Yes, everyone else has caught up. Yay less spam!
The problem boils down to the fact that there is currently no way to test your blood for blood donating purposes, especially if you're asymptomatic.

I mean, there's this disease, and it kills people, and is known that blood transfusions can infect people and we don't have a test for it. What would you have the Red Cross do?

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In my experience, when discussing development problems, there are two types of people: those that say “well, you could just […]” and those that tried to do it and learned from experience how many unexpected problems you are going to have, how much work it's going to be, how much more testing you need, etc.
Do you also take that attitude to your code? I.e. "it's alright, that code path only executes one time out of fifty, doesn't matter that it crashes the program".
>science-fiction

yeah, right. Which invention was there in the books, that seemed unlikely at the time and that had a significa
t impact on the story?

Drugs, microphones, cameras, TVs were basically an old hat at the time, like 50 years past for television and the phone, not comparing consumer articles. The stretch from widely available radio to TV is not a big one.

The control and deception, dissociation and assimilation likewise. 1984 was the time of WW2 no less. What do you know about the situation in some hidden archipellagos somewhere in Oceania.

BNW i found much less irritating, though it is not far from reality either. The only take away for me was sociatal exclusion, soma and population control through distraction. Enough in my bookkeeping, but not much science is involved.
Yeah and the web doesn't need CSS either.... Come on this is ridiculous, web-based chat? Webmail? I can't imagine using those without JS. So the user is supposed to refresh the webpage constantly to see if they got a new chat/email?
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Hi, welcome to Earth. Can't we all just play/create games, deal with the riff raff (like every other aspect of life) and move forward?

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I would add that the cumulative effect of all these examples in SICP
is to demonstrate that you can solve any programming problem
from first principles - that is, by combining a few simple but powerful constructs in the several ways they describe.
Moreover, a solution constructed this way might be simpler and easier to understand than a solution made the more usual way:
by looking for a specialized language construct or library that seems to offer an already-made solution to the problem.
What makes it even worse is the name KZPlayground, for me personally stuff like that sends shivers down my spine, though I'm slightly biased (being Austrian, family history, etc.).

kz can thoug also be the TLD/country code for Kazakhstan, there are just a lot of ambiguities in all the human languages and product naming can be a real pain (some car-makers have some experience with especially bad naming :) )
One example: there are several people who apparently scrape the front page of HN (and proggit, etc.) and then proceed to download all of those links repeatedly every minute (or second!) for several hours. Same link, over and over and over. I can only imagine what get rich quick scheme would require such behavior.
Do you think that there is something fundamentally different between doing a start-up and the various other high-stress, all consuming industries (e.g. big law, finance, medical residency)? In all of these industries, the narrative is that work is all consuming. Clients are non-stop and demanding. Work is 24/7. Work makes you miss birthdays, dinners, holidays, vacations. But ultimately, in all of these industries there are plenty (maybe not a lot) of highly successful people with kids and significant others who could say nothing other than "my big law/finance/doctor significant other can be described as nothing more than the perfect significant other/parent".

I think there are lots of things that affect the quality of a relationship, celebrating birthdays and showing up for holidays are likely not high on the list.