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I've seen Acme before. There is this webcast by Russ Cox that shows of what is interesting about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

I think it could be an interesting editor. It is a Plan 9 in the sense that it's API is a filesystem that it exports. This means any language that can talk to the filesystem can automate Acme. IIRC, there is a standard app called plumber that can be used to trigger contextually aware actions. It sounds neat.

It is missing something I consider a deal breaker: no syntax highlighting. I know some people vocally dislike it, but I can't live without it. I would also be able to make it a different color than snot yellow. If I'm going to be staring at something all day, I'd like it to look decent.
I've never heard it called a truck factor.
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Two things:

1) Unless you've explicitly checked that Go's memory model prevents read/write moves to allow double-checked locking, don't do it.

2) The pattern is usually a CAS after the check.
Show HN: Upda – Find places near you to do work
This summer I started working with some partners on a software consulting company to tackle a bunch of the issues I see happening at local small businesses and startups. (Check out parkandeaton.com and the blog there [or email me] for more details.)

To drum up support for and interest in my company, we demonstrate Upda (beta), a small application to find decent workplaces near you.

I find myself in the city constantly worried I'll pick the wrong coffee shop that has no restroom or no wifi. It may have been easier to simply make a Google doc. But this is slightly more fun and there are many ways in which Upda can engage users in the future. It is local only to Philadelphia (where we are based) right now. You can still use it, but only locations in the Philadelphia area are accepted. We will definitely look into expanding as we vet the idea.

A true MVP, this is one of our first ventures into "app"-space as a company and we look forward to receiving your thoughts and criticisms.

https://updaapp.com
I wish there were more stories about reddit to read.
Until recently, lane sharing was not specifically legal in California, and it was also not specifically illegal. Then someone decided to write it into the law, for some reason.

Anyway, the reason California allows this is because most of the country's good ideas start here ;-) It's demonstrably safer for motorcyclists and it saves everyone time, so why not?
Then let me reframe the question:

"How would I go about presenting my company in such a way that it'd seem so unpromising that only smart investors would give me the time of day?"

It feels like maybe there's an "uncanny valley" between "no plausible way this team is getting funded speculatively" and "no-brainer straight- to- partner- meeting".
> Even then, if that's the choice they're making, it's their life, I guess. I've just known a few people who did make that choice, and invariably, they felt wretched about it. <

Because of the act itself, or the social stigma put upon the act?
That won't make the difference between $60k and $1M. The main difference is that investors will be reluctant to lose money, so they'll push to at least get their principal back.
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15 years ago a pretty sizable chunk of the industry thought heap overflows weren't exploitable for code execution, so I don't think that's the right interval.
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I'll explain it to you, as a person who was a Haskell enthusiast and uses C++ professionally.

The problem with Haskell is that while it is very effective at expressing ideas and logic, it is just as ineffective at expressing runtime behavior. In world where everything is lazily evaluated by default and garbage collected, it is very difficult to reason about how the code will actually execute. Are you trashing the cache? Fragmenting your heap? Are you misusing the instruction cache? For performance reasons, Haskell programmers often need to forcibly make operations strict and turn off the thunk essentially. This is a layer of complexity you don't often see in blogposts and Haskell tutorials. In contrast, I can look at C or C++ code and tell you more or less exactly how it will map to assembly (with some exceptions like when compilers decide to inline).

So in short, that Haskell you know is not the full story. I've written some Haskell programs and tried very, very hard to make them fast (they were parallelized too). At the end of the day, it's hard for a language to completely outclass another one because there are tradeoffs and life isn't so simple.
Lots of people, probably most of the industry, buys really exceptionally shitty cars - corinthian leather is not even a real thing, but it moved millions of haphazardly bolted together death traps for years and similar garbage-on-wheels still sells tens of thousands of units per year.

There's also quite a few small automotive companies around that haven't successfully made the transition from specialty maker to mainstream success. This goes back to the early days of the industry and carries on through today, from Tucker to the Rally Fighter.

I like to think I still represent a big part of the industry, after all somebody is buying those Consumer Reports used car guides.
Primarily, verified email is the way everyone does password resets.
That's a fair point, but since we are all pissed off at our governments for taking liberties with our well-intentioned permission to conduct espionage on behalf of our well-being, your are extending more benefit-of-the-doubt than a lot of us are. That's probably to your credit. But I am wary that the 'secret' stuff has a lot of implications that are only on the edge of what we would think of as trade agreement- intel sharing and such.

It could, I suppose, be a positive: everybody come clean about the past(keep that stuff a secret) and then have fair and reasonable limitations going forward. There was a day when I thought like that... :)
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You might be surprised on that. I got many of the same style of rejections you did. I got very few clear-cut "No"s and lots of "We like what you're doing and it makes sense, but we need a bit more time." Which is the most frustrating form of "No", as I suspect you know.

My guess as to what made us different than Airbnb circa 2008--maybe some of these apply to you, too:

1) Founder with previous exit/acquisition in the tech space

2) Product had some traction (paying customers, including a F500 company)

3) Product was in a domain that most VC's/angels didn't have experience with (in my case, software designed for marketing teams) -- some were nice enough to outright reject us based on the fact that they had never been in marketing; the people who had previously been in marketing almost immediately saw the need and said "YES" right away; many of them saw that we had traction but felt like they needed to understand the market better to see what we were seeing, so to speak.
If I lived in a different area, it would absolutely be something I'd consider.
refusal happens in life, nothing new? But at least most of that email had a clear reason why, some also gave advice. I think they were lucky to have such responses.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I've saved it in case the topic comes up in another forum.

The design is great. I get most of it. Security is a big, use case for microkernels these days. One part that jumps out at me is that receiver inherits sendor's priority and quantum during a transfer of control. I'm guessing the kernel manages the inheritance in storage only it controls, right? Otherwise, I could see issues coming up.

So, it made a robust desktop, eh? I considered getting a copy of it but didn't have time. What do you think about integrating a knock-off of this kernel with MINIX 3 or GenodeOS? They seem to be the furthest ahead of the open, microkernel-based systems at getting to something usable.
Top parent was flagged and can't be seen now. But stock Python 2.7 code can be run under PyPy and it's very fast if speed is a concern. PyPy3 is in beta essentially so that's not a production-ready option if you're into Python3.

I'm a Python2 programmer who is making my "Python3 transition" over to Go. So I don't have much attachment to it, but Python code isn't slow. I'm moving because of the language leadership towards conservatism towards the language which is my philosophy rather than feature-creep and technical churn.

The CPython implementation is, and it's still always been fast enough for everything I've written, so the meme is slightly overblown as far as I'm concerned.
Poker/gambling is a common impediment in education? Where, if I may ask? I would have guessed the others, but I'm surprised by this one.
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Interesting idea with the front/back seating, but honestly I can't image it actually drives well at all. The front with the pushed out wheels is super fugly as well.
> nothing more than just a brand

I think that's quite the understatement. But then, one could easily say this about most big brands, no? Brand happens to be really really important.
It's hard to say. In your opinion, what kind of advantages would an early-mover have? (As opposed to someone who waited for the startup ecosystem to evolve a bit before moving)?
Are you sure you're actually using the HTML5 player? I am being 100% serious when I say I've never met someone before who thinks YouTube's HTML5 player is good.

Among the various issues I've seen:

* Sometimes refuses to play anything, without showing any errors, requiring a reload of the page.

* Occasional poor performance.

* Audio/video desynchronization

* Scrubbing the video often causes it to get stuck, refusing to play, until I scrub it again

* Videos often take longer to start playing than with the flash player.

* Fullscreen is sometimes broken

* Switching from regular mode to "theater" mode sometimes leaves the video playing in its original size, anchored to the corner of the now-larger black area that it should be playing in.

I think it's gotten a little better recently (i.e. I see issues less often), but it's still far from great.

And before you ask, I've seen these issues in both Safari and Chrome.
I think a optional "+1" would be better. And / or something like an optional post format -- if you want a poll you can enable "+1" 's. If not just disable it or change the post format.
Helena is pretty far east. I love northwest Montana - but I've never seen Helena. What's the case for Helena?
I was curious to what he meant by the blowback effect, and so my googling eventually led me to The Backfire Effect[1] which is when "in the face of contradictory evidence, established beliefs do not change but actually get stronger".

I don't really see that applying in the sense of obtaining venture capital, as it is well known that you aren't going to immediately walk in to an office and hand them a check for the valuation you asked for. It's going to take a bunch of both hard and soft rejections, but a person isn't usually going to be in that room pitching to these VCs if they don't already strongly believe that their startup is fundable.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect
mh.. bizantine consensous and bitcoins, mining saga, transaction explained as "calculation of a certain hash" (lol, certain)

I don't believe these are good infographics, I am more puzzled than before. If this is what the user base accepts, then probably the protocol is wasted in their hands.
1 gbps ftth might be an advantage
you probably can lookup news archives of the last ~15 years for that
That depends on them being interest at all.

As an Norwegian i came upon an article a year or two ago, based on book by a social scientist that had found that the Norwegian family was changing.

As the female part of the population has gained more equal economic terms, a pattern had emerged where a single "stud" man was being passed around from woman to woman. Once she found herself pregnant he was shown the door.
Partially because of Colonization by British and additionally because they invested more on research/education.

I was born in a poor country and I had this question too. I blame our ancestors for not being open-minded and putting more value on religion / non-sense rules. After age 45, most of the people in my country get devoted to religion and spend most of the times going to temple/performing rituals and complaining/expecting others to support them. But here in the west, 45 isn't old. People work hard till old age and enjoy life.
Going passwordless with long-lived sessions requires more complex session management though. If you don't time-out sessions then you increase the cumulative probability of a live session eventually being hijacked through XSS, MITM (coffee shop, rogue wifi), or malware etc.

And if you want the user to be able to perform sensitive operations (edit their personal details for example) then you'll have to ask for a OTP or email verification every time. These methods tend to be higher friction than a password box.
Simple answer: Only take meetings with VC firms and angels who have direct experience in the area where your product helps the most.

I mentioned to you in a reply, below, that my marketing software company got immediate YESes from angels who had been leaders of marketing teams and intuitively understood the need for our software. I think my record time to close an angel was under 2 minutes. For those who had never led or been part of a marketing team, it was an uphill battle the entire way.

Once I learned that filter, I was able to raise money more quickly, with much higher close ratio.
Its a chicken & egg scenario. Most folks are not going to want to move there because there's not many tech opportunities, and there aren't many opportunities because no one is ready to move there.

What else is there in terms of opportunities in the tech industry in Helena besides your new ISP?
Not knowing the consequences of something is an insufficient reason not to do it. You're invoking a form of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance (Namely, that it hasn't been proven safe, so should be presumed unsafe.)
Haskell's perceived as an impractical language because it is one †. There aren't many projects where you'd get any plausible benefit from using Haskell instead of some other reasonable garbage collected language. Lazy evaluation is a big risk, if you aren't writing programs that start and finish. It sure is one that I've suffered from. At the line-by-line level, purely functional code also takes more effort to edit, once written, than imperative code.

†Edit: Well, it's practical for some stuff, but it's not particularly more practical than other languages, and there's a big spooky bit of danger that comes with it.
Well, that's a good point. You're right about the use of Biker Gang as a pejorative being in the same vein as your statement. I still think that I agree with the point that he's making that in a community which is inclusive enough you'll find people there who are openly hostile, and that you have to choose whether you accept the hostile people or the people they're hostile to. Depending on your choice you might then end up on the wrong side of history, irrespective of your original goals.
There are odd places that regularly produce startups, such as Huntsville Alabama, but it has been an aerospace hub for 60 years. What is Helena's track record for producing startups?

Keep in mind that high speed internet won't make an idea into a product people want. The critical issues in tertiary markets are access to smart capital and technical talent. How does the incubator plan to make money? What is the Ruby/Python/Clojure/etc. community like?

Good luck.
This stuff saddens and frightens me too. And so my humor is often dark.
:) I was at a security meeting, I've heard the same reply. I am really not sure why it's still so used though.
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It says right in the very first line of the article:

> On June 26, 2008, our friend Michael Seibel introduced us to 7 prominent investors in Silicon Valley.

Therefore, the answer to your question is: in this particular encounter they talked to 7 VCs, got 5 NOs and 2 no-answer's.
Visit, yes. Move, probably not.

Maybe instead of an incubator, you should focus on local education. 'Growing your own developers' outside of Silicon Valley seems to be a trend. It's working in Nashville, at least.
0-day exploits? I though that flash had been discontinued years ago.

The last release I've found is 11.2, which seems to be years old and the last ever.
Show me the money ! :) Just kidding. For a person like me, it largely depends on if I really believe in the products you're making.
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>It's not just those below the poverty line, all of humanity does this... even the rich.

No they don't. If that were true no net value would ever be created.

I mean, there are instances where it is true even for the rich (insurance, for example) but most decisions, especially the larger ones, are based on getting something of more value to them than what they are trading. And they are hardly ever bargaining for their life, the ultimate loss, as poor people do routinely.
no, maybe not as bad, but JIT can be played pretty hard. I think the difference is that they are better structured and more transparent. I would definitely NOT put my hands on flash code, must be a mess!
That's been available in several other areas of the country for a while now, and people don't seem to be moving to those areas in droves either.
Now show me the e-mails from investors of the hundreds of start-ups that get rejected and fail.
Go to your local specialty foods store and look for things made in Greece, I guess. Olive oil and cheese would probably be a good place to start. I can't recommend the wine though, they tend to put pine resin in it for some reason.
What is so new and special about crowdfunding? This is basically the stock market (which already gets its share of ruining amateur players who don't know enough) but taking away all the rules required to participate.

There's no oversight, no required disclosures, no stock/ownership, no liquidity, no insurance, no fallback protection, no guarantee of product, etc.

And this is supposed to replace all other forms of investing? I'm sorry but that just seems very naive.
Although Helena seems nice, if I was trying to build a growing company, I would be concerned about access to talent. Whats nice about tech hubs is that there a lot of people in those areas with the skills and experience necessary to help build software based companies.
We won't run out of natural gas resources any time soon. This is to produce and liquify "stranded" natural gas resources.

Methane is _much_ more abundant than liquid hydrocarbons. There are many more ways to produce methane geologically/biologically than there are to produce liquid hydrocarbons.

To elaborate, there are three main end-member types of source rocks (organic-rich shales, etc that produce hydrocarbons when heated). All of them will produce methane once temperatures are high enough. However, only two of these are capable of producing oil at all, and that's only in a relatively narrow window of temperatures. Furthermore, type III source rocks (land-derived organics) are the most abundant of the three types, and they only produce gas.

Interestingly, if you look at current proven global reserves, you'll find they don't reflect the difference in abundance. (~1.7 trillion barrels liquids vs. ~1.2 trillion barrels oil-equivalent of gas) This is because exploration and development focuses on the more profitable liquid hydrocarbons.

There are several _huge_ gas fields (>100 TCF... That's mind-blowingly large) that have been discovered but never appraised, developed, or produced. There's a lot of others that are likely to be of a similar size but have never been drilled at all. The reason is purely due to the way oil and gas are traded.

From an economic perspective, natural gas (methane) is typically sold on long-term contracts. There's no global market for natural gas. It's not a commodity. Instead, all trading is region-specific. You can only sell what you can deliver, and natural gas has to be delivered through pipelines.

Therefore, if the natural gas resources are not close to a heavily populated area, you can't sell them. These are referred to as "stranded".

LNG (liquified natural gas), however, can be (and is starting to be) sold globally as a commodity similar to liquid hydrocarbons. Southeast Asia and Japan have a large demand for natural gas and relatively limited supply. Furthermore, the gap between demand and supply is predicted to grow over the coming decades.

Australia has large "stranded" gas fields that Chevron and Shell have held rights to for many decades. Australia also happens to be close to the markets with the greatest predicted demand for LNG. Based on this, the super-majors (Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, Total) have started to pour _huge_ amounts of money into LNG facilities. Australia is currently home to the largest of these projects due to its location relative to markets with the largest demand.

At any rate, there's the big picture in a nutshell. I'm a exploration geologist in the oil industry, so I have a slightly different perspective than some, but hopefully that gives you some idea of the reasons behind projects like this.
Not for everyone, apparently. I'm still being prompted to install a plugin.

Not only that, but images flagged as "gif" also prompt me to install flash (amazing how oddly these new features get implemented!).
If you know a company is legally obligated to pay up to $x, and that they have $x, you can offer to pay $x/1.1 in collusion/partnership with the bug-seller, for a share of the proceeds. You can outlaw the collusion, but setting up this kind of mechanic seems like a bad idea.
When it comes to startup times and Clojure, I'm keeping my eyes on Skummet: http://clojure-android.info/skummet/
I loved it. To me medical school was the entire reason that I had worked so hard in high school and college. I finally could quit worrying about grades and just focus on learning.

Every waking moment was studying. I knew if I slipped that I would fail. Overall, though, it was great because I was really interested.

The people who didn't like it were those that either focused on grades and couldn't keep up or those people who realized that medicine was not their passions.

I would type more but I'm on mobile.
Free internet, office space, and no taxes for those in that office space might do it.
Why are your functions named with numbers and why aren’t you using youtube-dl (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/)?
Reminds me of Stephen King's rejection slips: "By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

Like Guy Kawasaki once said, "Don´t Let The Bozos Grind You Down".
I don't think that's quite applicable in this case, as getting a business funded is a far cry from winning the lottery -- plenty of people frequenting this site were able to obtain funding under similar circumstances (a lot of rejections amidst a couple yes's).

The reason this is the exact opposite of winning the lottery, is that the lottery is the equivalent of saying, "Please, a higher power, change my life by granting me all that I want.", whereas someone getting their company funded is more akin to saying, "I want to take full responsibility for the failures and successes of my own life, and to even become responsible for the livelihood of others.".

In short, they are worlds apart as far as mentality goes. Regardless of the success of the company after the funding, going forward with a company in the face of such utter rejection by those who the author viewed as "smart people" takes a mentality that is shared by pretty much all of those who have achieved similar success.