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Are these real mugshots of people actually convicted??? If that is the case, then I have a big ethical problem about this 'game'.

The purpose of a game should be to provide fun and put a smile on the player's face, and it should be done in such a manner that others are not being demeaned in the process.

Sorry if this sounds rude, but this is absolutely disgusting to me.

EDIT: According to your help link, these aren't even convicted people, only those who have been arrested, which makes this even worse.
Personally, I will have lunch with just about anyone who wants to show up somewhere that I am. gotta eat anyhow, right? it takes a little longer.

I don't have much advice on where to go from there, though; I'm free with advice, but I productize my, uh, outputs.

I've personally been getting lots of merger/buyout flirtation; but I've got little interest in selling unless you want silly valuations, and it seems that my company is worth about 1 year of earnings, and it's worth a lot more than that to me, so uh, no go.

still, just knowing people in your industry is a very good thing. And you've gotta eat anyhow, right? so go have lunch with people. It's kinda fun, too.
I don't get the strong reactions to this homework. As far as I understand the assignment, it pretty much describes how I do arithmetic. It seems like a natural way of working to me, since nobody taught me to do it this way (if my memory doesn't fail me).
Yep, we had another rejection yesterday for a "pre-existing condition."

Our latest release of Gaia GPS was just a handful of bug fixes - no feature changes - and Apple rejected it on the grounds that our map screen didn't warn the user they were offline.

They also rejected the new version of our Lite app for a totally different reason - because we used a "private" API - actually just a function restricted to Mac programming called dateWithString.The non-lite version builds from the same code, so it's also annoying that they just pick one random thing to reject you for. They didn't mention the "private" API call for our non-free app at all.
the Google closure compiler also does inlining on the top settings (compilation_level = ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS) http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-ref.html
No. Someone may produce this as prior art and demand a royalty free licence for another product at some other time. It's much easier to simply send C&D.
On similar homework from my kids, there is always a presolved similar problem at the top of the page.

I can guess the intent of the exercise, but it would have been a lot easier if there had been a solved example.
It wouldn't have mattered. All the tax increase ballot propositions went down by over a million votes.

Furthermore, because of the way California is gerrymandered, I would be amazed if any students live in districts that aren't over 60% democratic.

Isn't it grand? You can't vote anybody out, and unless you have over 2/3 of the districts, you can't do anything worth a damn either, because the parties live in separate realities.

Here's to the rising tide lifting our boats out this mess...
Where on earth did you get the idea that Cayman Islands was cheap? George Town is more expensive than Washington D.C; you can get a pad in Dupont for $1.2k, further towards Adams Morgan much cheaper, yet further still in Ward 1, Columbia Heights, Park View, Kalorama and Mount Pleasant and you hit sub $700 territory.

Cayman Islands you're lucky to get a pad for $3k, and anywhere you wanna live is probably an expat community home (mid-aged nudist Englishman alert!)

If you're working for a startup, your colleagues will most definitely want you at hand. They might agree to telecommuting now, but if they're really a startup, then they will be screaming their heads off at you over the phone and demanding you come back. If they don't fire you by fax or message in a bottle, that is.

P.S. Stay in the same timezone or suffer the consequences. I am 15 hours ahead of my work zone, and I have days when I just finish a long day at work and feel like a cold beer, even though the clock says it's 8AM where I live.
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I agree with the basic premise of the article. Developers are the problem with the App Store. However I mean it a bit differently. How many developers have the gumption to quit the App Store till Apple fixes it??? Till a majority of developer's simply quit developing for the iPhone the app store is going to remain broken.
Philippines. I'm living there now.
You make valid points. I threw in Cayman Islands because I know someone there and I might be able to rent from them.

As for the telecommuting, the startup has a couple of developers that don't live in the same state. They are flown in whenever needed, but it seems to be working well. The thing is, I want to use my summer to travel and to experience cool internships. Unfortunately, these two things don't mesh very well hence this idea.
Buenos Aires is cheap and awesome, and you'll get along with English. You will probably end up spending more time being drunk than working, though.
It's funny, I just realized the way I do certain simple arithmetic is by actually counting in my head. 8 + 3 is 8... 9, 10, 11. But something like 6 + 5 I just have memorized. Maybe cause my brain has decided it takes too long to go 6...7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Or that I'd forget where I was without using my fingers or something. And now that I think about it, for 8 + 7 I use a third technique: I double 8, and then subtract one. Even though I'm pretty sure I have that one memorized correctly, I still seem to always do that check in my head. Ok, I think it's bedtime. Probably shouldn't admit any of this in a public forum. :)
It's interesting that Clojure was able to beat Perl in the "Wide Finder" contest. In the first Wide Finder, Perl blew the doors off of everything else, including Erlang and OCaml. For Wide Finder 2, Perl drifted towards the bottom, but was still dramatically faster than any other interpreted language like Python or Ruby. It sounds like Tim's naive Clojure code is running at Scala-like speeds, which is quite encouraging.

For those of you not familiar with the Wide Finder project, it's a benchmark (sorta) that Tim Bray uses to compare different programming languages. The basic idea is to do simple text parsing on a massive log file. It's an easily parallelizable problem, which makes it a prime candidate for testing all these nifty new highly concurrent languages.

For more background, you should probably start here: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finde...
I don't know if any of you have kids but this seems like a pretty normal work sheet to me.

Don't condemn or applaud it, it's just one of many ways the children will be taught to add. Some kids get it straight away and some don't.

It's just practice and practice is good.
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I think that is intended as a joke.

At least I hope so.
Accra (Ghana) is cheap, coastal, and Anglophone. When I was there four years ago the broadband was quite spotty, though I expect things have gotten better since then. But the flight over won't be cheap.

You might try Panama or Costa Rica. It won't be as low-cost or as Anglophone as Ghana or South Africa, but there's enough English speakers around, it's cheaper to get there, and the infrastructure (including broadband) is better. And you'll also remain in roughly the same timezone, if that's important to you.
They still seem to be around. They don't measure power directly - they measure the wheel in your existing power meter.

Because Gridspy is an independent power meter, we can measure many individual sub-circuits at a high resolution and at low cost. We don't require any particular hardware to be installed in the house already, access to a breaker box is all you need.

Our measurement of sub-circuits using our own technology at low cost and 1 sec update rate makes us completely unique. There is a huge list of power monitoring companies but no-one is doing this, or even claiming that they will do it in the future.
This is like saying Google is the Holy Messiah and all shall drown in his words. Seriously, just because they are Google you think they are going to be able to convince people to switch over to something that doesn't even have local storage??? What if the cloud goes down??? You had your life-saving data in there??? Sorry buddy, you're out of luck.

Even assuming the Google cloud never goes down, how many people would trust their data to Google???

While I do agree that webapps are increasingly popular, I don't think it's going to come to a stage where anything and everything is a webapp.
I have 4 kids, homework or no homework, the work just begins when I get home from work (thankfully, I work for myself).

Elementary school should assign more homework. The kids actually enjoy it. Math games, story problems, reading fun stories. If they don't have homework, they actually CHOOSE to do something fun out of their workbooks. At that age, learning is fun.

Maybe it shouldn't be required or graded, but assigned and provided.

Later on, when they are more independent, I want their school work and homework to prepare them for college. Yes, this will require more of them academically.

There's always time for friends. Kids wouldn't have it any other way.

Maybe it's just the parent in me. I want my kids better prepared for college than I was, and I want them to have more and better opportunities than I had. I think hard schooling opens these doors.
KISS

(nature tends to work this way; it's essentially a hack right)
I would've uploaded my image if it weren't for the fact that the bootable USB image is 2.8GB.
People are generally sensitive to gay jokes (aka there's no reason it's something a homosexual male wouldnt want to brag about it either)
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Never been there, but Panama looks good: cheap cost of living, fast internet, sizeable "knowledge worker" expat community (from cursory googling), good nightlife, etc.
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You list of advice is good. It's that it needs to exist to put software on one of the most popular devices of the decade that's absurd.

In the 80's you could travel pretty freely as a western visitor in communist eastern Europe if had a similar list, telling you who to nudge where, what gifts to bring for cheap bribes (IIRC I heard that a good ball point pen got you far in some places) and so on. Now, the ultimate solution isn't a better list, I think was PGs point.
Ask HN: Any data source on how previous YC startups are currently doing?
Is there any sort of data source/website which tracks where all the previous YC startups are today (in terms of funding, traction, exits, etc.)?
Sure, Reddit is successful at being Reddit, but not at what Conde wanted to use it for: using social media to expand into other fields (as the article says).

Look at Reddit, Digg, and HN. Then look at Cool Hunter, Perez Hilton, and Sartorialist.

The minimalist style doesn't suit mainstream media who are highly visual folk. Lipstick.com, created by Reddit for Conde, took advantage of the social aspects of Reddit but was designed with a minimalist geek aesthetic. There was no chance this would ever be successful.

Sugar Networks (who do PopSugar) would have been a much better acquisition for Conde.
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That was probably on the page before, no?
It's a nice concept. But I'm still paying out of my ass for broadband and I come close to, if not hit my limit every month.

I couldn't imagine working with everything in the cloud, not for a few more years ;)
Completely agree. Apple needs competition from people who have a clue, but in the meantime a lot of developers will continue traveling to 'communist' Apple, because that's where the money is ;-)
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Panama.

Friends of mine have moved there, I visited last winter and it was quite amazing. Tempted to move there!
sciam blogs tend to be a little less than awesome... one of the problems i have with this piece:

" If it were true, we would expect to see scrotal testicles becoming increasingly elaborate and dangly over the course of evolution, not to mention women should display a preference for males toting around the most ostentatious scrotal baggage. “With the possible exception of colored male scrota among a few species of primates,” write Gallup and his colleagues, 'there is little evidence that this has been the case.' "

Clearly this refers to us chaps having scrota that we could either puff up like a balloon or flatten out to wave around like a fan, or even change color (like so many of the mating displays of the wild). However, the author fails to recall the time of Shakespeare (and, in some cultures, still today), in which men would wear a codpiece to promote their wares:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece

(interestingly, Codpiece is from the middle english 'cod' which means, scrotum)

I bring this up not to be pedantic, but because it's important to say what we mean. In this instance, the author's language suggests he isn't aware of the codpiece and, well, for scientific american - this feels like poor journalism. Better to say what you actually meant, if writing for the sake of oratory confuses the intent.
The "why" is a whole world of debate in and of itself, and is in fact a problem with the language used to convey scientific understanding.

From Wikipedia: Teleology (Greek: telos: end, purpose) is the philosophical study of design and purpose.

What happens is that ideas are often conveyed using teliological phrases, such as

"the sparrows migrate to africa in the winter month so as to find abundant food sources and rear the next generation..." or
"testicles reside outside of the body major in order to benefit from a reduced temperature...".

The problem is that these make sense to us, although they are _very_ incorrect. The teleological concepts of "so as" or "in order to" are the whys and they are very tricky beasts. So, for utmost correctness one would prefer to say:

"the sparrows migrate to africa in the winter month finding the abundant food sources needed to rear the next generation..." or
"testicles reside outside of the body major benefitting from a reduced temperature..."

It's a very subtle issue, and one that is compounded by the popularity and ease with which we talk about biology and evolution in particular. Ernst Mayr wrote some spectacular essays on the subject, he's one of my heros so forgive me for the blatent plug! He claims that a formal understanding of the errors of telology must permeate the sciences, and most especially biology (he was a philosopher of biology), so as to clear up the ambiguities that can lead one to think there is an end or purpos (telos) to evolution. Even now it is still quite common for people to think of it in terms of progress and constant betterment instead of just simple and blind adaptation.
Interesting to note that the major motivation for them switching to the Amazon 'cloud' was to avoid procurement rather than the technical merits.
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That isn't bad. It should automatically move to the next mugshot when I click on a charge though. Also allowing retries is lame, give right or wrong, and only reuse if they've gone through all the images. Finally, it'd be more cracktastic if it was always one more, just one more... As it is, you have to make a decision to do another 5 after the first five. And another thing, if you implement that then I want a moving updated percentage of my performance.

I think you've got the seeds of an FB app here. Good job.
I don't like this kind of "illustratory" maths. In my opinion it will only distract the brain and make maths look more complicated than it is. My neighbour's kid once had to draw squares on paper to do multiplication. If I had been forced to draw 100 squares just to multiply 10*10, I would probably have refused to do any more maths for the rest of my life.
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I think culture might be a confounding variable...
I'm the same actually, although I am absolutely pathetic at arithmetic. 8+7 would probably involve counting for me.
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@kurtosis: You should rephrase your question as, "why haven't cells evolved to be more heat insensitive".

One thing the article did get me wondering, and if any hacker here has gone through this and be willing to admit it, i'd love to know:

If you have to ask a doctor for help get pregnant... i.e. if your little fella isn't up to the job- i wonder if there's a course of therapeutic treatment simply around better managing the temperature of the scrotum? I'd imagine it'd be hanging around in loose fitting shorts in a temperature controlled setting until such time as your partner would be ovulating? :)
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I think that declarative style is actually above functional style in terms of getting flawless results; declarative is the "ultimate abstraction" everyone seeks, since it lets you jump from problem definition to problem solution immediately. But it is found within language features as varied as named variables, type systems, classes, constraint primitives, functional algorithms, macro systems, and domain-specific languages. You can't actually be "declarative" from just one of those things; it's using them in combination, in incremental layers, that gets you to a truly beautiful result.

I also think that the majority of programmer zealotry originates from programmers who stumble upon a paradigm that allows them to be more declarative than before; being so stricken by this new power, they become blinded to the limitations.
They're a good gimmick. But at the end of the day, half of the apps you can find equivalent web versions that run just as well in the browser.

I agree with others - the app store is not that important. It's a fun thing. I'm not convinced it'll even be around/relevant in 5 years.
Quicksilver.

Spotlight, Colibri, LaunchBar, Google Quick Search Box etc. Even mobile phones have "quick search" now.

QS is the first thing I install on a clean Mac, it gives me access to everything else. When I use an OS without QS or similar I am slowed down and even stopped from finding certain things.
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Not really :/ They need people developing webapps.
To be honest, I think the appstore is just a stopgap until webapps become mature enough to take over (And wifi is prevalent enough). I wouldn't put too much effort into the appstore, and I don't really blame Apple for being half hearted about it. It's certainly not the future.
"Let's be the ones on stage showing off our super popular new apps. In short: let's stop talking about it, let's get out there and get awesome."

So, what is her super popular new app ?

How awesome is this lady on a 1 to 10 scale as a developer ?

This post is funny in that it is completely self referential.
I'm not aware of any site which specifically tracks YC startups, but TechCrunch's CrunchBase allows you to see many of the places where YC has invested (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator) and if you click through to individual companies you can see -- at least as far as TechCrunch is aware -- what investments/products/exits they've had.
This article is confused about several concepts, namely the role of certificate authorities and the state of quantum cryptography.
Buenos Aires is great, I lived there for 4 months, Internet is easy. Broadband is not bad in Delhi India, everyone speaks english and you can outsource well, plus you can buy those sweet wireless broadband sticks and have wireless everywhere. Brazil was okay for work, but the Internet isn't as good as Buenos Aires. Italy is terrible for wifi, as is Spain generally. Those are the places I've digitally nomaded, but I'm heading to cape town later this year.
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Quantum crypto is not an "imminent development". It's being used in practice today.

Your might mean that Shor's quantum factoring algorithm is not an imminent threat to practical cryptosystems.
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If there's a database that records which gadgets you own and what time of day you tend to leave them unguarded, and a public utility bureaucracy is tasked with keeping that database secure ... don't worry about your gadgets' power needs. That will be somebody else's problem soon enough.
For me it is much simpler, Apple became much greedier that it was. They saw the opportunity to monopolize the market and they took it without any remorse.
EDIT: This got down-modded, and I'm not sure why. You may disagree with it, but I think it adds value to the discussion. I've touched it lightly to make it slightly more generic, but I still stand by what it says. Teaching is hard, math is hard, someone who can do both can make more money elsewhere. If you disagree I'd be delighted to hear your case and thoughts.

It sounds a lot to me from this and other contributions you've made about math that you, like many others, have been damaged by some really bad teaching. Using these techniques properly gives the child/student powerful tools for analysing situations they haven't seen before. Teaching rote techniques doesn't - of itself - provide that power and flexibility.

Having said that, these "illustratory" techniques are often taught appallingly by well-meaning and gifted teachers who themselves have learned by rote what to do, but don't themselves have any real understanding of the math underneath. We need teachers who are gifted teachers, but who understand the underlying principles.

Unfortunately, those gifted in math are rarely gifted in teached, especially teaching children. Add to that the fact that they could earn more respect, reputation and money using the math, and what we have is a continuing disaster in math education.

I have no answers.
I don't know about ballpoint pens but a good bottle of cognac always worked. I knew some people that started a business right after communism fell -- they had to buy cognac by the case.
then you likely feel the gap too :)
> Quantum crypto is not an "imminent development".
> It's being used in practice today.

Wow! That's completely passed me by. I'm off to Google for stuff, but I'd appreciate any references you can cite.

Thanks.