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I'm Czech too and it doesn't really resemble any existing language to me. Definitely not Slovak, Polish or Russian. Maybe something several hundreds years old.

Yet, I found that just looking at the samples I'm not having much trouble understanding it.

Suggestion: try to read it out loud -- it helped me quite a lot with Polish. And here too.
I'm Czech and i think i understand almost everything
> (OK, there are no Cobol fanbois.)

Probably. But you can sign me on as a Grace-Hopper-fanboy.
One could add that many of the compiler advancements happened to counterbalance binary architecture limitations.

Contrast aggressive register optimization for function calling on most RISC boxes with SPARC's moving register window or the hoops you have to jump through on register-starved instruction sets like x86s.
What a lovely interface, and some really great results.

Typed in "javascript" and it basically becomes the best JS API doc site I've ever seen :-).
Interestingly enough, a lot of universities do have the course material available on their websites. Eg, I learned most of my compiler module from Stanford course notes because they were better than my own lecturers ones.

But I get what you're saying and imagine this is why not all universities do this. If everything were free, they may not get so many people paying for it.
Slovenian here and It's completely same for me.

Although I do understand southern Slavic languages and I also managed to pick some words from Czech in the course of my life.
Indeed, I can remember us all feeling quite nice and smug with our racks having dual A and B feeds from separate mega UPSs generators etc.

We didn't feel quite so smug when we actually found out that some of the racks actually had both sides plugged into the A feed - which was probably confusion between us, the data center owner and the electrician installing the feeds.
I think you need to talk to an accountant. If you're making $111k a year that should hopefully not be a problem.
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As in all natural Slavic languages, nouns in Slovianski have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural).
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That's not true - Slovenian has three numbers: singular, dual and plural.

But then - Slovenian is maybe not a natural Slavic language?
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> If you will, think of this as a speculation about a successor language. 15 years from now (say) there will be a better language than Haskell in the statically typed lazy functional languages space, which absorbs the key positives of Haskell, has a few new ideas, and possibly treats Monads differently (or does away with them altogether). Clean (the language) deals with IO with uniqueness types with nary a monad in sight. Is that design "better"? Worth thinking about.

Clean's uniqueness types have the distinction that you can e.g. in theory split the state of the world, thread it to two different function and then put it back together, and make the type system ensure safety.

Monads have the distinction that they are not only easy to compose but that composability is baked right into their very definition (and laws).

Functional reactive programming might be a good alternative model for I/O and some other things where monads are used. Also arrows seems to be worth more investigation.

Arrows are in a lot of cases the more apt structure that monads. The reason arrows aren't used more in Haskell already is that the monads have such a nice syntax.
> Interestingly, the founders of both languages are the opposite - competent and down to earth. One would think they would be emulated more.

Indeed. Though I wish Guido would have more love for tail call optimization. (At least he knows how to write a parser. (I am looking at you, PHP.))
love the animation of the flood fill. made parsing of that part pretty much instantaneous.
This is the clearest and most reasonable discussion of the issues that I have seen.

I fear it won't make any difference what anybody says: Conroy is wedded to this policy by a secret deal with independents in the senate and he'll see it through no matter what. Besides, every poll done of the public returns support of ~80%. We, the technically literate folks in Australia, have failed to educate our fellow citizens to understand how useless, counterproductive and dangerous this filter will be. The conservatives won't block it, they love the idea of control over the internet. They can't wait to get in power and start pulling the levers themselves.

It's been a long time since I felt so depressed about my native country.
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As the problem is that original submitters can't always be bothered providing a descriptive title, why would they be any more likely to bother providing a suitable tag?
Wikipedia says that Proto-Slavic language (the proto-language from which Slavic languages later emerged) had dual. But it was lost in every Slavic language except for Slovene and Sorbian:

Of the living languages, only Slovene and Sorbian have preserved the dual number as a productive form. In all of the remaining languages, its influence is still found in the declension of nouns of which there are commonly only two: eyes, ears, shoulders, in certain fixed expressions, and the agreement of nouns when used with numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#The_d...
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"I can then imagine some of them going for the "I deserve it because I was so awesome in my past-life.", which also doesn't hold up because it's a circular argument. So, again, how can they justify their superiority?"

I'd personally go with "I deserve it because I was so awesome in this life."
I am Russian and I confirm that I can read text from their front-page right away. Both alphabets.
Good question. I don't know. That why I put the question mark in there.
It's the parent's example, not mine.
No, but it seems your comment added nothing to the discussion. (And it was short enough to be misunderstood.)
Really? Do I really have to cut-n-paste the same 10 page essay about this every time the subject comes up?
Thank you for your reply. I know but it will take me a while because there are no accountants here who would know about handling of US corporation. And I have no idea how to get in touch with someone who might know..
In the meantime I would like to know what more people think. Thank you all - I appreciate this so much..
This looks like the Interlingua of slavic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua
One possible way "to see at glance what a link is about" is to make an automatic term extraction of the link. A small box could be included (I know this could overload a bit the current nice and minimalistic interface) showing the inverse frequency of the most popular terms in the retrieved link using a kind of TF-IDF weight algorithm.

I suppose a "stop words" list would be required along with a stemming algorithm to limit the tokens/"words" with less semantic meaning. In this case, the work can be done while the submitter is adding the link and the software proposes the extracted list automatically. The submitter can alter the list proposed to improve the meaning of terms extracted.
That's the workaround, but that process is left to the user. Google Earth doesn't do that for you (since it can't know how to split the polygon, because it doesn't know the inside!).
Sarcasm is not necessarily wit.

This kind of pedantry about things like invention that hold weight on this site is silly, worse it's bureaucratic.
Hopefully. Every time I use apt-get, I wish it charged my credit card money and gave Apple 30%! Maybe they will add that feature for me!
After looking at the grammar and dictionary, I find it much more similar to Czech than I thought after looking at just samples. Dictionary has quite a lot of Czech words, you'd only have to apply some rules to make it look more "modern" :-) (ija -> [i]e, throw out most of trailing i's, ični -> cký, g -> h…)
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I love Linux package managers (most of the time).

However:

- if you need the very latest versions it can be a pig

- no one has yet built a nice, usable and newbie friendly UI yet

If Apple can fix the second of those, all power to them :)
I agree with each paragraph above. Generally, I consider the quality of most headlines to be sufficient, and in cases where it is not, I still have a second option - click on the comments first, which will give me enough suggestions whether it is worth to visit the site.

Moreover, I surely wouldn't want to pre-filter according to the tags, because one of the main reasons I like HN is that I am confronted with topics, which are not my primary interest, but allows me to expand my thinking to new areas.
Good point, I agree about the traffic and making it easy to read. It's annoying, but I automatically want to read the article with a title like that, because I assume I won't have to concentrate too much to get a possibly valuable idea.
Most of the comments so far have focused on the fact that tagging may benefit readers before clicking through on a post.

I actually think the benefits of tagging would biggest after submission. Namely:

- If you could view articles by tag it would help new users coming to HN view what might have been said before about a given topic

- It would make mashups like this a heck of a lot easier: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

- It would make searching for relevant historical discussions easier. There is so much good content on HN that is effectively lost

Some suggestions for an implementation:

- Make the tags freeform, ala Delicious, so as not to box things in to strict categories

- Bake it into the main site itself - http://hntags.com doesn't work because that's not where we hang out.

- Have the ability to view all articles with a given tag

- To relieve the burden on the official mods give users above a certain karma level the ability to apply or alter tags on submissions
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If you were dealing with HMRC (UK) rather than IRS (USA) then no matter where you are based I would strongly recommend that you contact them directly and ask them for their advice. As a director of two companies I have found that they are helpful beyond expectations. The people I deal with are there to ensure that everything is legal and above board, they are not there to make you pay as much as possible. More than once I've had HMRC make suggestions that would reduce what I pay, and their advice is free.

Sadly, youa re dealing with the IRS, and I have no idea if they are the same. The impression one gets from outside the USA is that you must pay professionals for their advice and assistance in dealing with Government agencies, rather than dealing with the agencies themselves.

IANAL, and in particular I have no direct experience f taxation issues in the USA, but my advice would be to find an accountant in the USA who is willing to discuss this will you via email. Your friend should be able to find one, and I suggest he might be legally required to do so. In return, you should sort out some way for him to get compensation, because most likely it is he taking the risks on your behalf.
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It would be possible to get a classification of the link through opencalais pretty easily (don't know about the legalities about how that service can be used though). I suppose it's mostly useful to be able to browse hacker news by category.

Example: the post "'Chang' from Google accidentally publishes TechCrunch post on Blogger Buzz"

Topic:

"Technology Internet"

Social Tags:

Technology Internet, Yahoo!, Computing, World Wide Web, Yahoo! Mail, LinkedIn Open Networker, AOL, Facebook, Carol Bartz, Communication

Entities:
Company
Facebook Inc [36%]
Time Warner Inc. [30%]
Twitter Inc [10%]
Yahoo! Inc. [79%]
Country
United States [26%]
Industry Term
advertising industry conference [32%]
analytics tools [19%]
display advertising tools [31%]
finance chat rooms [12%]
online marketing [6%]
Person
Carol Bartz [80%]
Comscore [26%]
Position
CEO [32%]
Published Medium
Advertising Age [29%]
That will make barcodes a whole new medium to exploit software vulnerabilities - I can't wait to see the first barcode virus.
> I did have some problems throughout the contest with my choice of C++ -- in fact without Valgrind, my entry may never have run correctly. (Turns out one of my algorithms was "escaping" off the border of the map and scribbling in RAM) But hey, I've been dealing with problems like that for more years than I care to count right now.

:D

http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
Thank you for your time - I really appreciate it. The problem is that the friend is not in the US either. I hope someone who reads this will know something from their own experience. But I know I need to find the accountant.
Again, thank you so much for your reply.
Does anyone know of a similar artificial language to unify the Scandinavians?

Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic are similar enough that it should be possible to create a language that could be passably understood by all speakers -- call it "skandiska"...?
Did you do any sort of memoization of the minmax evaluation?

For example the expected value of moving up and left should be the same as the the expected value of moving left then up?

That would cut down the search space some. Of course it adds memory overheads.

You could also memoize the voronoi heuristic if that takes a long time to compute.
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All features/changes that could affect the document set require a documentation update, a documentation review and training of all relevant staff before deployment.

They are talking about an audit that verifies that what you describe does in fact happen. Restating that certain things should happen is not going to help, as people are not usually aware of what they are not doing. To improve, you need to point out where they fall short. To be able to point that out, you need audits. Procedure are there to ensure nothing goes wrong. Audits are there to ensure procedures are followed.
I agree, - to name an example, "be yourself" has to do with social situations, if it were about happiness "accept yourself for who you are" would have been more appropriate.
Some developer has clearly mis-understood the 'stateless' part of HTTP. The protocol is stateless, but the resources are NOT stateless. You don't have to and shouldn't send all of the information your service needs through the protocol; all you need to send is sufficient information to fully identify the resource you're working with. In this case, that would be the customer id number, which is your key into a database that has the real customer information.

Oh, and DON'T STORE UNENCRYPTED CC NUMBERS, AND NEVER STORE THE SECURITY CODE. That should be so obvious. If I were building a system like this, and I was required to store the CC number at all (which I'd prefer not too but many retailers do it) I'd encrypt it using the security code, and I'd modify my http logs to filter those codes out of the log. That way I couldn't decrypt the CC number without asking for the code, and I'd never have the code stored anyplace on my system.
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...although it would last about 3 seconds in OLPC's target market.
I don't really care so much about the category of the post, as in programming/startups/CSS/Apple. I'm more interested in knowing what kind of post it is, as in pdf/magazine article/blog article/video etc.
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Wrr, websites that do this irritate the living hell out of me. It's only after you've ordered or signed up that you discover that they've decided to pollute your inbox and history like this, leaving you with the job of cleaning up properly.
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Perhaps there's a role for a site that names-and-shames poorly implemented ecommerce sites. I've recently been asked to enter my visa into a site without https.

There shouldn't be any excuse for this sort of thing now.
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Not if it's written in cyrillic.

But otherwise, except for a few totally unknown words, it quite readable for me (.si).
The initial load of the necessary resources still requires a connection; it's not like offline Gmail just comes preinstalled with a cache of your messages...
Isn't this the same guy who said "the network is the computer"?

The cognitive dissonance is staggering.
No, that was Jonathan Schwartz former ceo of Sun, now acquired by oracle
Maybe if you told us what country you're in, other HNers from that country might be able to recommend accountants - there must be other small-to-medium sized companies in your country that at least export to the US. That said, maybe someone here could recommend a US-based accountant who would be willing to sort this out for you.

I don't know whether you have this where you are, but most European countries have government-sponsored bureaus for supporting businesses. They might be able to help directly or refer you to someone (presumably an accountant) who can.

Finally, have you actually asked your/an accountant? They may not be able to answer your questions directly, but there's a good chance they'd know someone who can.
As a Norwegian, I have no problems understanding both Swedish and Danish. That's mostly correct the other way around as well.
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Also Bulgarian, I can read it with no problems. "Tastes" like Croatian to me though. Definitely does not feel like Polish.
It's pretty standard among ecommerce companies to store the CVV code though, isn't it? Amazon, PayPal, and Google Checkout all do.
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The problem I forsee you having - even if you do work out the companies taxable income to $0 - is that it looks a lot like a Dumnmy corporation [1] where the cash is going out of the US. Im not sure if that would interest the IRS or not but I cant help but feel that it would :)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_corporation
How can this possibly be within PCI DSS compliance rules ? - do they not apply to everyone taking Mastercard/visa ?
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I object to your use of the word "developer" in that sentence ;)

I totally agree with you, as a developer I would have strongly objected to storing peoples CCV number to start with.

Generally, this is shocking, and backs up what so many in the UK claim that there really isn't enough good developers.
For the most part though, tuition doesn't pay for curriculum in the sciences. For good professors, >100% of their salary is paid for by grants they bring in, not tuition. The tuition goes to pay for other things, like the school's bureaucracy, athletic facilities, extracurricular activities, gardening, janitorial staff, and subsidizing the humanities, all of which don't have much to do with developing science curricula.
A linguist would probably say that Scandinavia already has a common language, and that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are mere dialects of the same Scandinavian language. They are considered different languages mainly for political and historical reasons, but since they are mutually intelligible (with the possible exception of drunk Danes) "Scandinavian" is really a single language from a linguistic perspective.

Icelandic is a different story, of course. Thankfully, though, the Icelandic speak English rather well...
The original source, with lots of screenshots:

http://ashen-rus.livejournal.com/4300.html
I works, but not as simple for using domain wildcards, as he mentioned.
> filter those codes out of the log

Why would there be creditcard data in you HTTP log?
You wouldn't want to encrypt the CC number with the security code. It makes it easy to discover the security code if you can get the CC number, which isn't so hard to do. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, it's not allowed to use the CVV for anything. But basically, if someone is able to get the CC number, then it's merely a quick check of the possible security codes, which is small in number. Granted, I understand why you want your credit card number encrypted using user encryption, but instead of using the CVV, you might try using something else, like their password.

Storing the CC number in an encrypted format is fine, however. You want to be able to retrieve that information at a later date, after all. Should a user want to make another purchase, they really shouldn't have to enter their CVV all over again.

Granted, this all assumes you have to handle this. An even safer way is to use the gateways capabilities. Many of the option to create rebillable transactions. You send over the specifics, and they handle the rebilling for you, and you don't have to store anything of the users.
Yes, we're planning to be very transparent about what we do. At the moment it's really just a matter of staying on top of all of the unexpected press!

Our users' trust is absolutely crucial to what we're doing, so you can expect detailed information on exactly what we do with your private data; and we may also make some things opt-in/opt-out. We have no intention of hiding anything.
No. It's not allowed. However, you usually don't need to send over the CVV code to make a transaction if previous transactions have been made to that mid.

At the same time, Visa and MC make up their own rules, and Amazon, PayPal, and others could have their own agreements.
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> Argos said that it "takes the security of its customers’ data extremely seriously

The straightness of face or otherwise was not reported
Ah. I didn't realize that Scandinavians already understand each other so well. I'm a Finn who studied mandatory 6 years of Swedish at school, yet I can't understand a word of Danish...

I wish they would teach us something more useful than Finland's regional Swedish dialect and accent -- it only has a few hundred thousand native speakers, of whom 95% speak Finnish anyway :(
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So many of these coding challenges seem to be just straigtforward applications of constraint programming, I don't understand what all the hubbub is about. Install any old prolog/chr or constraint library and you're done. Haskell and c++ are a convoluted way to get to that.
Don't be fooled, that's just tax code for "development work". What they have in real R&D is a black hole.
Conceptually, what should tags denote? At some level, I'd argue that tags are solely to give the reader a better idea of subject category. Do others agree?

I ask because (and especially on a discussion site like HN), usage of (free-form) tags to editorialize is inevitable without heavy moderator monitoring. Would the tags 'yes' 'godyes' and 'hellyes' on a link titled "Is Apple Evil?" add anything other than gasoline to a flame full discussion? (Not that flamebait tends to last long on the frontpage.)

Are tags really just for the disillusioned to block all stories tagged with 'ipad'?
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