skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an even more detailed and open posting from an outage in July 2009. I remember finding the timeline of events fascinating.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/ba95ded9...
Yeah. But, changing your stance every other day is something your engineers wouldn't probably appreciate all that much.
They're using Rapleaf's API for the data.
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"Surely everyone experienced at these competitions would quickly figure out that lisp et al are huge competitive advantages, and everyone would quickly switch."

You missed the part where I pointed out that current major competitions don't accept arbitrary languages. That's the key point of my post. All else is not even. If they did accept arbitrary languages I would accept your logic, given sufficient time for network effects to wear off.

Otherwise, if you're going to argue that it's the people and their experience that really matter, you reduce back down to my point, which is that all the experienced people have their experience in C++ as cost-of-entry to the major contest sites and thus tended to use C++ as the language they have by orders of magnitude the most experience in by virtue of it being the only sane choice of the ones actually offered, rather than any intrinsic advantage C++ has over the non-offered languages.
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I believe that the company which creates Australian plastic currency (or licenses it to the Mint) also provides their services for the currency of other nations?

Actually, here's a list:
http://www.noteprinting.com/banknotes_table.html

And more about them:
http://www.noteprinting.com/banknotes.html

FWIW, here in Australia, we have ditched the 1c and 2c coins. Our coins are 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2. (Then the odd commemorative coins of which I've seen $5, $10 and $200, I think.) Shopping transactions are rounded up or down to the nearest 5c - seemed a big deal at the time, but I doubt anyone thinks twice about it now.

Notes are $5, $10, $20, $50, $100. They're each distinctly coloured and patterned and differ slightly in size as well. There are a number of anti-counterfeiting methods incorporated including a plastic panel.

I'm also surprised that all countries don't switch to notes like ours.
Part of making an API publicly consumable is an informal commitment to maintain it. Most major API changes are announced far in advance, and legacy versions are maintained to give developers the chance to switch. A company whose core value depends on consuming that API will likely be informed about future changes; I'd think it's the least of their worries.
No mention of whether they support Google Apps hosted email too. That would be cool to have on top of just Gmail.
Select and Premiere memberships didn't include WWDC videos per se. Premiere included a WWDC ticket, and attendees do get the video for that year's show, which can otherwise be purchased for about $700.

It's a shame about the hardware discounts going away. They had good breaks on the higher-end machines.
Any reason is a good reason, actually. All they care about is that I not offer incentives for votes.
There is a way to make it work but it's not as simple.

http://twitter.com/rahulvohra/status/10004843448
fun problem with the first run of aussie plastic notes was you could rub the print of with bathroom cleaner (ajax), as a republican family we made sure we got the queen of every note we could get our hands on :)

also you could shrink your money in the oven to make cool key rings.

also good for things that go up your nose.

also some Reserve Bank of Australia ppl got done (or maybe they walked?) for bribing foreign officials in order to sell our plastic tec money os. http://allafrica.com/stories/200910140297.html
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In Australia, I've found that steam games are often significantly cheaper (10-20%) than their retail counterparts, and the sales are cheaper still.
Their website is beautiful; simple, elegant and tells me enough about what they do for me to want to install their plugin. I wish more companies could present their products so concisely.
You and I don't disagree in the least. I never claimed as a publisher that I didn't want to write to a specific audience, just that I didn't want to write to a specific platform. The audience I want to reach doesn't hang out on just one reading platform unfortunately.

You use one single web browser when you use twitter, facebook, blogging, email, buzz, and HN, don't you? You are standardizing on HTTP and HTML, but you already knew that.

I am certainly not suggesting only ever using one platform to publish. In fact I specifically mentioned 3 as a strawman that I might use (flickr+twitter+blogger). They serve different writing styles, but are not necessarily different audiences. My wife might be interested in following all 3, you might only be interested in my blog. That makes sense.

In the analogy to the internet, there are a million ways to run a website: apache, frontpage, nginx, blogger, geocities, angelfire. Yet, these websites all work in the same way at some level. I can read them all in one browser (*mostly), I can link between them, I can crawl and index them, and they all participate in the same DNS system making it easy to find them.

PS: The need to choose a title for a blog post isn't really relevant - there is nothing about blogging that requires content to have specific titles. Some specific blogging packages do of course.
This is somewhat misleading.

JDT is a compiler in the same sense of the term as javac is a compiler.

It's just a different compiler, with some different features.
The MIPS architecture is also not going anywhere, but its use in desktops and laptops computers is still minimal. Since ARM seems to be gaining popularity in the personal computer market where it used to have no market share I wouldn't be surprised if MIPS started showing up as well.
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Here is a brief overview and the source code from my 5th place entry. http://janzert.com/tron/
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Really? I get ripped bills pretty often. Some shopkeepers have that habit of flicking bills, and that will occasionally put a tear in one.

Admittedly, I've never tried to rip a fresh one, so the torn ones might be several years old.
"Actually, the problem with Monads in other languages is that they do disappear behind the statement separator (semi-colon in many languages)... The Monad pattern appears everywhere in every language whether you know it or not, Haskell merely exposes to the user something that is already there. "

Yes I agree (haskeller myself). The "disappearance" I meant was addressing the original point of view that the repetition of the pattern was a weakness in the language, something like Visitor pattern disppearing in Common LIsp. (an intriguing idea to play with and a valid point of view). Your interpretation of disappearance goes the other way - something like continuations being hidden in fortran and explcit in Scheme.

"Accusing Haskell of being "less advanced" because it actually exposes Monads to you and permits you to use them is very much like accusing C++ of lacking power vs. C because it permits you to overload the square brackets. If you put aside the question of whether it's a good thing to have the power (a separate debate in both cases), it's not a very sensible accusation to level against Haskell."

A better analogy would be an argument about exposing call/cc in scheme. Is call/cc good language design? There are arguments on both sides. Haskell does continuations differently than Scheme. Which is "better"?

And come on, no one is really "accusing" Haskell of anything. I for one, like the language a lot.

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.
In case you didn't know, the different sizes are to help out blind people. I've heard that US notes area all the same size? That must be a pain for anyone with poor vision.
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> A Perfect Circle's "Judith" was a song that came out as I was leaving an abusive religious group.

May I recommend the song "Wings for Marie, part 2" by Tool? The lead singer of Tool and A Perfect Circle is the same fellow, and it's a song with a similar theme. I don't listen to much Tool any more, but I did check out the new album a couple years ago as I was a fan when I was younger. Not as good as Lateralus or Aenima in my opinion, but the track Wings part 2 was really really good.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/10000-days-wings-part-2-lyrics-to...

To listen (it's a long song, so in two parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg5LeuJA8UE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFy_CwA5hk
>I think I was cleanly picking a concept apart into fundamentals and relating my definition to each piece.

You were picking a particular stipulated definition apart, but the definition in question doesn't correspond to the concept of "free will" or "free choice" that people actually have. Playing around with definitions like this doesn't address any important issue.

Tthere is no sense in which (1) and (2) explain our sense of freedom of choice. You can perfectly well imagine that even if both (1) and (2) were true, you might nonetheless have no sense of free will. Even if you don't know what you future decisions will be, you can still feel like a "cog in the machine" with no power to act of your own volition. In fact, I sometimes really do feel like this. For example, if you've ever been extremely angry, you've probably had the feeling of not knowing exactly what you're going to do next, but nonetheless feeling that you have very little control over your actions.

>They are all very clear AI terminology except value fulfilment, which should be self evident.

Really? If I google for "value fulfillment payoff", the only result is a link to these posts. I'm know what the individual words mean, but I find the phrase a little baffling.
Yes, as long as the random characters are really random. This seems trivial but is actually quite difficult to get right.
> I see no reason why we cannot still be pragmatic and assign responsibility based on the ways people act, and what their states were that led up to their actions

We can do that, but it's arguably treating people as means rather than ends. As I said, I don't view myself as merely a bundle of state, and it therefore seems somewhat immoral to treat others as if they were just bundles of state. It's kind of fundamental to a moral view of the world to believe that you are no more or less a person than any other person. So unless I can really persuade myself that I myself am just an automaton of some sort, I'm not sure I can deny free will and nonetheless maintain a satisfactory moral outlook.
The most seamless way to get Rapportive working on Google Apps is to make your Google Apps email a Google Account and give it the same password. You can do that here: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

We want to make this experience better :)
I know Select and Premiere had access to more videos than I did with ADC Student. I had thought that it was simply everything. Guess not. Thanks for the correction.
Also you technically leak a little information by not padding your plaintext to a larger block size, but its not really an issue in this particular example.
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Had to fax (or email, although, iirc, they stressed that they preferred fax, when I called up about it) a copy of your Student ID + schedule in.
That's a common myth. HTML5 supports many features that let you run "web apps" offline. There is no technical reason why you would need an internet connection for Chrome OS but not for Windows CE.
you have it right
M=loveyou
K=spgbwoz

C_i =letter(order(M_i)+order(K_i) mod 26)

where order() and letter() backward and forward lookup in this table:
0 - a
1 - b
2 - c
...
24 - y
25 - z

The Decryption function is similar to the encryption function but you subtract the key from the cyphertext to get back the message.

Claude Shannon proved that the one-time pad is unconditionally secure using the concept of entropy H(). Very simple argument which you could try to lookup.
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The first few days of the contest were dominated by higher level languages (iirc Python help the top spot for a little). The forums were filled with people talking about their approaches, and there was a ton of rapid prototyping.

Once the algorithms were solidified, the people that knew C++ implemented them as optimized as possible. The bots had a limit of 1 second for processing per move. As soon as the ideal algorithms were understood, it was a no brainer to make it as fast as possible.

It really just came down to raw speed in the end, which is hardly representative of most real world problems.
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I had a professor in college who, unlike many professors in college, had actually worked for a living. He imparted on me the following panacea for all questions you cannot answer (not related to the startup context but I think you can make it work): "That's a good question which deserves a more thorough answer than the one I'm prepared to give you off the top of my head. Let's follow up on it later."

It suggests that you have sufficient confident mastery of the field to know that you don't know the answer off the top of your head but that somebody on the team has a satisfactory answer, suggests you know the answer isn't a threat to you, and allows you to control the pacing and direction of the presentation.
Wait, you need a license to make software for Mac now? Can't people just download your software from the internet?
whoops, here's the link to the main article and not my comment, haha:

http://coconutheadsets.com/2010/03/02/what-i-learned-raising...
Or android.
The Acer Aspire netbook boots instantly into Android, then asks if you want to start Windows.
Check out Befunge ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge ) and its n-dimensional siblings. It's a favorite of mine.
I discovered this video a few months ago researching for an essay; it's a great source on this topic.

http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=11190
I've always thought a great product would be software that instantly gives you an admin interface to whatever database you point it to during install?

It seems like many people would have thought of this idea, yet I haven't come across any products exclusivly for this.

Any ideas, advice, interested cofounders if I do it?
"I haven't noticed that much negativity in the Ruby community either"

Well I interpreted "douchewienery" to be more (ignorance + snobbishness) than being harshly negative. Both Ruby and Clojure have plenty of practitioners who have no deep understanding of other languages (or knowledge of programming language theory or language design skills) combined with a certainty that their language is "the one". Witness all the "Ruby is better than Python" rants.

Interestingly, the founders of both languages are the opposite - competent and down to earth. One would think they would be emulated more.
Wow:

"Sorry — currently we only support Chrome and Firefox. We will support more browsers soon (the next is probably Internet Explorer)."

No Safari? And it's not next on the list? That's a bit odd, given that they support Chrome.
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"We're currently searching for this address. Please check back shortly and we should know more."

Do you guys scan through all the emails at once or will I see that every time I open a new recipients email?
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A lot of companies have nice official apologies but this one really stands out. Google is not just saying sorry, they are actually implementing serious changes which probably represents millions of dollars of development to help make sure this doesn't happen again.
I'm curious, did anyone start out prototyping in Python or other high level languages, then translated to C++ for speed? Or did the Python people mostly stick to Python all the way through?
How does light speed up when moving from a slower medium to a faster medium?
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I don't think so, actually. I can tear them with my fingers easily, and they feel like paper. I think it's just part of the culture to pay respect to daily items. I've never seen someone in Japan fold (even just in half) a paper bill, and they're often given with two hands, or at least rather carefully.
Well, at least in the US the mint seeks out and collects torn bills and replaces them with fresh ones.
Maybe separate approval if they write a new UI for the iPad since Apple has to approve the UI.

But I'm guessing they won't need it if they don't change a thing and just have user's choose to upscale it. Apple would probably prefer to be boastful about app numbers.
Yes, I also found astrails-safe quite useful. I've written up a four-part blog post about backing up your website using Amazon S3 and astrails-safe: http://techiferous.com/2009/11/getting-started-with-amazon-s...
If you are in the type of position that looks at a lot of data, you will naturally develop an eye for trends and outliers.

So what do you base your "eye" on? A lot of good statistics involves debunking the trends that people with an "eye" read into the data without them really being there. The human is a fantastic instrument for seeing patterns - it just has the small problem that it can easily see patterns in entirely random data - especially patterns with complex, non-normal distributions (lot of fractal random distributions are great for seeming like they were produced intentionally but without maths, how would you know that?).

It's true that sometimes when you see a trend, it really is there - sometimes. What differentiates a good statistician from a crank or snake-oil salesman is that they use a rigorous method to sift the trends they see.

Just consider that the "Eliot Wave Theory" is huge, utterly bogus theoretical method based on "seeing patterns" of stock market movement that can't be found by rigorous methods. We don't actually need more of that kind of thing.
There is absolutely nothing in there which isn't matter-of-fact. Again, I work for FB (and I joined less < 2 yrs ago) so you will generally diss this as well, but w/e...
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It's a browser plugin, Nothing to do with webkit that is what I guess you thought
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I freelanced for years, doing projects for small business, where I would often go in and work and be the only developer working on the project-often working remotely, from my home.

The best thing I ever did was find another like-minded person to work with (well, actually, he found me, but I stuck around). It was quite an adjustment at first, since I wasn't used to working so closely with another developer, but it's made the good parts tons more fun, having someone to share them with, and has made the unpleasant bits all the more barable as well.

It has also greatly increased my productivity and the quality of work I'm producing. I've learned, from his perspective, to think in ways I never would have before.

I wouldn't want to work with just anyone, I don't think, but I do believe I have been fortunate enough to find the perfect co-worker.
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It is on bitbucket. The link is on the front page.
We are actually fully compatible with Safari already; we just haven't yet got round to releasing a little Mac OS app that always runs our JS on mail.google.com.

You can use the following bookmarklet in Safari to get Rapportive: http://rapportive.com/extensions/safari/bookmarklet.js

The downside is that you have to manually start it in your Gmail tab. The upside is that most peoples' Gmail tabs are very long lived and, hey, it works in Safari :)
Someone seriously misspelled comprehensive and when they ran it through spell check it came out with compressive.
Yeah...that makes sense. For some reason it wasn't immediately clear to me that it was a plugin.

Thanks for the heads-up.
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Kinda remind me of Gnome Dashboard:

http://nat.org/dashboard/

Ah, those were the days ;)
Can someone tell the Apple fanboi about Xerox?
Yes, and I can't recall how popular it is around the world, but our coins also have different etches/marks around the rim that allow similarly sized coins to be differentiated by the blind. (The 10c and $1 are roughly similar in size, just easily separated by weight and the pattern around the edge.)
He probably should have said "less useful than rocks", because knives not specifically balanced for throwing would probably fly less accurately than most rocks.
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Those were probably the Coding Headstart videos, also not available to free ADC "online" members. I'm not sure what the online tier is called now, but it does still exist:

http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/

Compatibility lab access is mentioned in the updated terms and conditions, if that means anything.
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Well, if we leave the details aside, you do something where you take a probability distribution between a and b right? If thats the case, I think my original point stands, neither hypothesis really implied the other one because they say different things about the probability that x is in certain ranges.

I'm sure there are other problems with using the p value as a measure of certainty (though I don't know them) but this specific criticism seems silly.
I have not looked into an ipad specifically, but one of my goals before release is to have a REST API or SOAP API. So in theory making an ipad app should be fairly straight forward. But thanks for the suggestion, its a great idea.
Not required (yet, anyway) simply to distribute software, but Apple's had the Apple Developer Connection for years, and membership in it was required to get some SDKs, early releases of products, some technical support, and listing in the Macintosh Product Guide, among other things.
Didn’t students who went to WWDC get access to the videos from that year’s talks afterward?