skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Publishing houses do, in fact, have near exclusive control of supply. The fact is, the major publishing houses don't cooperate very often, but Amazon has to be exceptionally careful in the game it's playing.

An industry wide boycott of Amazon for publishing books would devastate the company, and would be entirely legal. It would also render the kindle exceptionally useless if people can't buy bestsellers or virtually any genre titles available. Publishing houses have 100% exclusive control over the supply of bestsellers, which make up almost 80% of book sales annually.

The publishing industry is a very docile group and pulls none of the shit the music, movie and television industries pull. Poking a sleeping bear is a bad idea, and the publishing industry is a $40 billion dollar industry in the US alone, while Hollywood movies are a ~$50 billion dollar industry globally. The UK alone adds another ~$44 billion dollars to the publishing industries pocket (yes, Britons buy ~5 times more books than Americans).

Publishing is a gargantuan industry globally. I would seriously hate to see what would happen to Amazon as book sales attribute ~60% of their bottom line, meaning industry controlled best sellers likely make ~50% of their revenue and on $24 billion in sales, they're only posting <$1 billion net income.
I think he was talking about recruiting firms, who (I think) typically get a commission for successful placement, proportional to the wages of the employee in question.

So while theoretically they have an incentive to get you the best salary possible, in practice they do better if they place more people at decent wages.
Compared to traditional static languages (C++, Java), Python offers an order of magnitude of improvement in productivity.

Compared to older scripting languages (Perl), Python offers a sane language and a rich programming environment.

Compared to other current popular scripting languages (Ruby), Python offers a solid runtime and better out-of-the-box performance at the expense of some elegance and fluency.

Comprare to some very interesting languages (Haskell, Erlang, Scala) Python is more widely available and allows you to produce good, portable, well-performing code quickly and easily.

It's a state of flux. Right now Python is my language of choice (after ten years of Ruby) and it touches that sweet spot of expressiveness and performance. However, the bolted-on features (verbose object system, clumsy metaprogramming) deliberate crippling of language (e.g. one line lambdas) and the underlying message of "there's one way to do it" (which is my way, because I know better than you) will, for me, mean that eventually I will move on. More expressive, coherent and flexible languages will eventually reach Python's current level of maturity and performance, and then it will be time to switch. It could be MacRuby, Scala or F# (but probably not Haskell or Erlang). Who knows.

But, for now, Python is a good choice.

Edit: typos.
Graphene FETs are analog only. They can't be completely turned off like Si FETs. The drain current can only be modulated, so you can't make traditional digital circuits from them. Researchers are primarily investigating them for use in really high frequency communication circuits, among other niche applications. Don't expect a carbon Pentium any time soon.
There are many ways they could be improving on Craigslist:

- More keywords in the posting template
- a semi usable search system (this alone outclasses craigslist by 10 years)
- Less spam
- An API for integrating with affinity sites
- Better integration with maps
FYI:

529's can be structured as a portfolio/mutual fund and be as aggressive as you want it...

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/529portfolios
online tutoring

- talk to a math tutor as they draw the answer on your tablet

- its like etherpad but with drawing
pg.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
My grandmother was always afraid that if you changed the channels on the tv too fast it would break the tv. To this day she's afraid of turning off the tv, she fears it wont turn back on.
Error cascade: a definition and examples
Well, first of all, you're using the phrase "youth employment," which I think is reasonable and fairly normal. The author used the phrase "child labor," which I rolled my eyes at because the author is seemingly oblivious to the negative connotation of that phrase.

Second, I'm not even necessarily in favor of a minimum wage. I just think it's bogus to blame our current economic woes on the existence of minimum wage. It's a bogeyman that the right attacks at every opportunity, whether it makes sense or not.

Edit: Also, you haven't provided any evidence supporting the claim that we don't have movie ushers because of minimum wage or labor laws. You've just provided ideological conjecture and arbitrarily placed the burden of proof on me.
At what cost? If it's not commercially viable, it doesn't matter. If someone could buy four processors clocked at half the speed for the same price, I doubt the chips will be useful in most circumstances.
I still think this is funniest 'fortune' based story:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79993

This also doubles as one of my favorite (publicly tracked) bugs
Nature publishes 17 parameter fits to 20 plus data points
As additional anecdotal evidence, this is true for me, though I'm still using Python for my next project simply because it's a proven language with proven libraries.

But I'm certainly ready and interested in moving toward a more functional language -- I've always been interested in the Lisps, and have always tended to write code in the functional style, where possible (even though my first language was Java...)
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Ask HN: Project Collaboration Web Apps?
So, someone submitted proofhub.com earlier today and the software there is almost perfect. However, it's beta/alpha and is lacking some serious features.

I cant invite a new person into an already created project
I cant make someone else an admin so they can create projects

Just a few little things like that...

I'm wondering if anyone else knows of some "ready for prime time" software to do this via the web... and without breaking the bank. I'm thinking $99/month OR LESS for an "unlimited" type account.

What's everyone else using?
Great to see your presentation, thanks for sharing!
I don't see a problem with individuals or corporations sending out pamphlets or putting out ads (because trying to draw the line would be too hard), as long as the source is clearly indicated as not from the candidate. The problem is when a corporation or individual gives so much money to one candidate that he or she is disproportionately responsible for that candidate's victory. This is the reason why we have 1 vote/person. As it is, the wealthy are able to vote with their money, while the poor can only vote at the polls (with limited choices and high risk of disenfranchisement).
I would guess that while games are very high grossing, gaming is pretty well understood and is unlikely to be a breakout new category of application on the iPad. For games, it's just going to be another handheld platform, maybe incrementally better than the iPhone or Nintendo DS or PSP, but not fundamentally different.

On the other hand, other types of software are almost completely unexplored on the iPad, and might open up new markets. If I were investing, that's what I would be interested in.
I used to have that as my screensaver. It's been around for quite a while; I think there were several different implementations.

It really fooled a lot of folks at the office who would approach me in the morning with serious expressions and say something like "something happened to your machine overnight... it keeps rebooting and blue-screening.
Apostasy!

Anyway, the problem is not the policies as such, it is the lack of explanation/feedback. Depending on the nature of the heuristic employed, feedback could perhaps be given in a users profile or during the action of voting (or even merely a single, central explanation of the heuristics employed).

(Personally I am neutral on the issue).
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HTTP also depends on MIME.

Duplicate suppression can be tricky. The overhead may not be worth the benefit, and the risk of message corruption is increased. Besides, if the mail is encrypted by the user, it may not even be feasible to do server-side.
Nice link. True, but perhaps a little overstated. Independents are who they are -- if they routinely vote one way or the other I'm not sure that takes away from their self-identified independent status. Seems like splitting hairs to me.

I'm not interested in revisionism either, and looks like you've failed to make any kind of point at all here. I was simply providing another piece of anecdotal data for your discussion -- which I've done.
I think we are talking about different things. Yes, there is a rule that says that if you are driving slower than other traffic you should go into the right lane. But nothing in this rule or any other rule gives you a right to drive above the speed limit even if everyone else is driving above the speed limit.
It says they both disagree with the Austrian school's version of business cycle theory. Even the quoted writer goes nowhere near the dismissal of the Austrian school attempted in the MoJo piece.

I'm reminded of when you see someone cite a creationist and one evolutionary biologist's disagreement with another on some detail of evolutionary mechanisms in order to argue for Intelligent Design.
Accessibility Grant Sparks Needed Development
I probably am underestimating their resources, but I'd still like an answer that'll allow me to vaguely quantify those resources and how they'll be put to use battling the evil fiends Google seems to be having trouble fending off.

And while we're on the subject, will other non-government companies faced with online attacks also have access to NSA resources? And if not, why not? Where's the line here and what are the implications?
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I'm not sure there is anything better
Initially, this whole thing was my idea and I convinced him to do it

It sounds like you never had real commitment from him.

To be clear, I don't want to fire him. Hell no. He's super creative and smart and he's built our core IP. And he's a great programmer. But the current state of affairs just cannot stand.

Something you need to be clear about is that you cannot control another human being. You can only decide what you will do. As someone else said, for him to do this involves a high opportunity cost right now. He has told you what it will take for him to commit:

Now my co-founder wants to finish the semester of grad school and work remotely from Europe until we know the company is going to succeed. There's still too much risk, he says, to drop everything.

Here is your piece of it (at least according to what you have said):

I can deal with him staying in Europe, but I'm going fucking insane over the idea that I'm taking money from my own family (not wealthy), letting my personal debt balloon and my co-founder, who owns half the company, isn't even willing to drop what he's currently doing to do this as a full-fledged effort.

Suggestions:

1) Stop borrowing from family.

2) See if you can get funding from elsewhere which will allow you to pay back your relatives so you can get this monkey off your back.

3) Come to terms with the fact that right now you are way more committed than he is (and apparently always have been) and either lower your current commitment/investment level so this is no longer consuming you and destroying your finances or begin formulating a plan to cut him loose and go whole hog on your own.

4) If you go with the route of lowering your commitment level (by, say, taking a job so you have some personal income coming in), it only needs to last until he has graduated school. If he won't make a commitment at that time, he will probably never make a commitment. If you are unable to cut him loose now, pick a date that has a logical basis (such as "3 months after he graduates") by which time he needs to be on board full time or he needs to go. You can let him know the deal and it can basically be his decision.

Again: You cannot control another human being. You can only take measure of the situation and make decisions about your own choices. Loyalty is a fine quality. But if it isn't a two-way street, the expression for that is "getting used". (Your description of the situation sounds an awful lot like some of the one-sided romantic relationships I have heard about. I don't imagine you would appreciate the comparison, so I have deleted those remarks.)

Good luck with this.
Maybe a software sales model would be a better fit here.
You give away the instructions on what hardware they need , and how to connect it ,and then you sell an integrated software that handles this.

This is also makes far easier for the library to try this because you can offer trial period/monthly software subscription , and they could reuse some hardware they have their(pc,display) , to make the initial investment relatively small, so you need a lot less bureaucratic approvals.
It's working fine for me in central China. Why not just use the VPN if you're having trouble?
geez, seems more like "command PG" than "ask PG"

complain on your blog, not here...flagged
It's legally "child labor" until you're 18.
Abstracting behaviour out so that it can be shared by differing objects is a useful thing to be able to do. Putting shared behaviour (and maybe also assertions as to the structure of 'instances') in another object and calling it a 'class' is one way to achieve that -- but not the only way.

If you liked this I would recommend reading "The Treaty of Orlando" (DOI 10.1.1.55.482) and also anything you can get your hands on about a small forgotten language by Antero Taivalsaari called "Kevo".

Kevo was a prototype based OO language without any delegation or 'parent' slots. Every object was self-contained and carried around within it all of the functionality it needed. Functionality was shared by copying, and shared behaviour was not reified into a separate object (whether called a 'class' or not)
You guys know the mises.org folks are a bunch of racists, right?
All of my systems use fortune, but it is displayed using different picture files; just another way to keep things interesting. :)

To see what I mean: http://pastebin.org/86456
Right, it's legally "child labor." But would you use that phrase in normal conversation as though it doesn't have an uncomfortable, negative connotation?
For the whole world you may be right today. That why I put the question mark in my comment. (Lots of people here are from the US and assume everyone is.)

I do agree that measured by income the world has entered a golden age. But I do not know whether mobility in income quantiles is at its peak: You can have a lot of mobility at a very low level of income, too. And in the stone age people were probably more alike in income, so that quantiles were closer together and more easily shuffled just by random changes. (Not that this is a good or bad thing per se.)
I posted it because it's largely true of me. I'm still using Python (with Django) for my day-job, because I know the libs and the tools and the pitfalls, but almost all the code I've written for myself in the last year has been Clojure. I toyed with Haskell a little, but the type system killed me, and Scala wasn't quite functional enough (in the FP sense) for my tastes.
I already replied, but I think this warrants a second reply:

I would already be much happier if the voting policies were _known_, and I'll tell you why:

For example, I've frequently seen the idea that voting power
should be based on some kind of average score of some recent
comments. In the current bandwagon voting climate, this would mean that the guy who "wants to put bullets into the bad guys" (recent thread, +40 points) has more voting power
than most other people here (a lot of _very_ informative
comments linger at 1 or 2 points).

If the voting policies were known, I could make an educated decision whether I still want to be part of this site.
A constitutional convention would massively disruptive, and would almost certainly lead to things the people who called for it would not want.
False: "There is an observable trend in Python programmers that results in a reasonable section of them moving to functional programming languages."

True: There is an observable trend that more and more people are using Python, and there is a smaller set of people that is not a subset of Python in any way that is toying with functional programming, usually for academic or masturbatory purposes.
How Internet standards are born: Part 3
It seems like the key is to work on top of an interface that does all the dirty work of negotiating with IMAP for you, such as the lisp mel-base library. Then you really don't care how messy imap might be, as you can build on top of it at increasing levels of abstraction.
I really doubt you have blocked all Google domains. They own tens of thousands, probably much more.

Also, Google provides public services by hosting assets such as Javascript libraries - are you blocking those as well?

If you don't want Google to track you you should just not visit Google domains, block Google analytics (and other trackers) and inspect your cookie cache every now and again to see what's leaking. That should suffice for a non-obsessive level of Google paranoia.
"the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers"

Someone mistook the problem as a benefit.
And don't include mathematical equations. They are meant to be precise.

A closer analogy might have been with growth of a bacteria colony: It's more or less exponential and you have to keep the right conditions up --- even in the beginning where you do not see anything, yet.
>Compared to other current popular scripting languages (Ruby), Python offers a solid runtime and better out-of-the-box performance at the expense of some elegance and fluency.

Although, Ruby doesn't have any iteration constructs as nice as Python's generators. (You could create them using call/cc, but I expect the performance would be awful).
I'm still a big fan of 'the Day of the Orange Dot' and welcome its return, in addition to the vote gating/weighting now in place.
Yeah, its one of those names that you think we are idiots, until you make the connection, then you think we are amazing. Well ok, maybe not amazing.

Any feedback on the product?
It may significantly help others from being attacked--the NSA has the advantage of being able to connect the dots in a way that no single company can (no matter how large). They know how other attacks in the past have worked, who else is getting attacked, etc etc.
You know, I sympathize with your argument, but... seriously, the second law of thermodynamics? If there's anything that qualifies as the cornerstone of sanity in physics, it's that.

Of course it's illuminating to analyze the question and figure out where, exactly it's gone wrong, much like it's fun to puzzle out subtly flawed mathematical proofs that 0 = 1.

But in the end an argument that concludes with something equivalent to "therefore, causality is broken" or "therefore, time is meaningless" doesn't really warrant serious consideration unless it's backed by some very serious evidence.
Suppose I am in my prime years. Should I help design the social system that opresses the young or the old? I will never be young again... and so the Soylent Green option is not workable! The young are pretty much doomed, the only question is as to the exact mechanism of oppression.

Alternative to debt burden would be oppressive taxes, but this has bad side-effects as well:

1. Taxes are not as discriminating against the young as situation dictates (debt is very discriminative)

2. People actually feel angry when money is taken from them via taxes. They are a lot less angry when they willfully spend themselves into debt. They even feel guilty when they can't pay. Bottom line is that it's easier to enforce because voluntary compliance is so much higher and political resistance to "pay your debt" is harder to imagine than to "pay high taxes".

3. Taxes depress economic development, while debt increases it (at the expense of the boom-bust volatility).

So I don't really see any realistic alternatives to the debt burden.

There is a very remote hope that technology brings us basic necessities too cheap to meter so that we don't have save for retirement. But that's really out there.
I think the point is anecdotal is not evidence and blog posts are all too often lacking in anything but.

Then again he's programming in a hot bed of programmers in that well known programming mecca of Hamilton, New Zealand. Oh, wait...
The reason Python is such a joy to use is that it hasn't felt the need to be all things to all people.

Those of us who use python are often coming from C++, perl, etc. and know all too well what happens to languages that try to add every feature that someone might find useful.

If you want to use a lazy purely functional language, you know where to find one. It's not python.

If you want a language that allows you to express your inner emotions by using your personal pet programming style, this isn't it either.
But if they are willing to work for that rate, they might only be worth it. At a minimum, I'd give them a few test assignments and be prepared to back them up before sending them to anyone else under your name.

Alternately, give a known quality associate a discount rate in order to get a firmer opinion of their work ethic.

At least while starting out, I'd emphasize quality over quantity. Alternately, go in as a team, and see how much slack needs to be picked up.
If I were referring to child labor laws in a blog post, as he was, probably. If I come up with some weasel words for them, anyone paying attention will pounce on that, suspecting my "real" agenda is to put orphans dressed in rags on treadmills.
The approach I used is called physical intuition. Specifically, you try to envision using some sort or set of metaphors of what's going on. For electricity (what level? DC, AC, AC with calculus?), e.g. moving electrons, for AC add the propagation of current. Try to connect visual plots of voltage and so on to that.

Then see how the formula apply to your visualizations. And/or use the formula to help produce them ... i.e. the formula says "at this point, voltage will be X and rising" ... how does that translate into current and electrons moving? Or try to visualize fields.

Also seek out other explications of this. If you have trouble with the calculus as it's taught today, look into infinitesimal calculus (one free on-line book, one Dover reprint of a good MIT Press book). Maybe The Manga Guide to Electricity would help. Or Purcell's Electricity and Magnetism; yeah, it's an advanced, "honors physics" treatment (e.g. it derives magnetism from electricity using Special Relativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_electromagnetism), but maybe it'll give you some useful approaches. (If you can't find a copy to look at, try to get the Tata McGraw-Hill Indian edition ISBN-10 0-07-066729-2), it's not in print elsewhere and copies are $$$).

Talk to other people and see if they can wave their hands in ways that make sense. Etc.

Good luck.
It actually does say (from my reading) that speed limit shall not be a factor if other traffic is going a similar speed. The very first line, "Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits..." is where I got this explanation.