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I was surprised to see my above comment copied to the parent blog link as if it was a comment on the blog itself. What's the software driving that? Very disconcerting and pretty cool at the same time. Makes me hesitate to comment on YC, though, when the comment could be taken out of context when read elsewhere.
'possibly'
You are correct, he didn't do a poll to find out what percentage of black people would only go to OKCupid after failing at those others he mentions. So basically this discussion is pointless until this poll is done.
ActionScript may be based on ECMAScript, but they look very different:

package com.example
{
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.display.Sprite;

public class Greeter extends Sprite
{
public function Greeter()
{
var txtHello:TextField = new TextField();
txtHello.text = "Hello World";
addChild(txtHello);
}
}
}

Also, Flash is more than ActionScript.
No, they implement Firefox, WebKit, and Opera workarounds ;)
I doesn't sound too difficult to me, but who knows. At a minimum level, should just scrape the first x amount of links, analyze the title for keywords and re-order the entries.
I know some people who saw him give a talk recently. They actually walked out because he was such a tool(apparently).
I think the patent laws and the patent office should figure out if a patent application is absurd. Absurd patents should never exist, and the patent laws should be very clear and very strict. (Actually, I don't think we should have patents period.)
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
I think the labeling of it as a cat parasite is interesting but misses the mark a bit. By messing with rat brains it helps feed cats. From the cat's perspective, it can sound more like a symbiotic relationship.
I wonder if internet radio in cars will be here sooner than you think though. I already know of MANY people who use their iPhone or Android phone (me included) to stream Pandora or other radio and just output the audio to the car speakers via an FM broadcaster or Aux input jack.

But, in regard to your idea... I wish there was that sort of API. I do listen to normal radio once in a while and would love to hear some indi stuff.
Apparently, being rich is some kind of virtue that excuses one's other failings. How admirable.
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You continue to shift terms, so it makes it more difficult to pin you down.

My math is pretty solid - socio-economic classes are defined by values in intervals. So guessing the average income for each race would be guessing what interval? It would be guessing middle class for each race! Remember, you stated the proposition that, 'race is a good class indicator' - thus, we don't care about variance in the interval called middle class...

That is why I explicitly removed it from my analysis - if the only information(class-related) you get from a person's skin color is that they are middle-class, then you have effectively received no information. Certainly you can't be suggesting that those in the middle-class are more likely to commit crimes - can you be?
It may be a witch hunt, but I have a 2008 Prius that has had a number of issues with brakes after potholes etc -- going for about one second without having much effect.

It has happened to me once when I went over a pothole and my wife a number of times (she drives more).

I'm in Canada and my local dealer can't reproduce the problem yet, but put yourself in the position of a Toyota owner who is no longer confident in being safe and who would get less than half the purchase price for a car with < 70,000 KM on it.

The Honda dealer doesn't want Toyotas as tradeins; they can't sell them.

Can you feel the anger?

I don't want to have to buy another car; I want to work on my startup. But I don't want to worry about my family's safety or buying some used car.

Toyota should be forced to buy back their crap products at some reasonable percentage, since these problems remind me of "heisenbugs" in code...
For a brief moment I considered abandoning my wife and son to go live here, be a badass hacker for the next year, kick ass in the next YC offering with a co-founder I meet here, then travel the world using rent-a-couch with my Mac PB always close by, releasing one cool version of our sw after another while keeping a widely-quoted blog.

Then reason prevailed (sigh).
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By the way, shopwisely.org gives 100% of commissions, and is a bookmarklet which works in ie, firefox, chrome, and safari.

But once you get the users on your side you'll have to get the merchants on your side by convincing them it will help business. Also the affiliate communities frown on "stealing" tracking cookies. They hate what UPromise does, even though I've argued it's not wrong at all.

I stopped doing it because I stopped believing in the "world changingness" of the whole idea. a) nonprofits don't like to raise money for the sake of raising money, and it usually took months before the money could be sent out. So they couldn't plan how to use the money raised. b)the idea isn't really better than direct donation except we're introducing a new middleman, and making it less transparent because the merchant now pays charities with money they get from the end consumer.

> Why not give a bit of free money to charity?

I want to mention that it's not really free money. In the end the consumer pays because the merchant pays.
The word "butthurt" comes to mind when thinking of this article. ;D
I'm really at a loss as to how people seem to just swallow this claim without question. What's so special about Javascript's closure support vs Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, C#, Lisp, Erlang, or ${all other functional languages}? What's Node.js got over Twisted, POE, EventMachine, or every single thing ever written in Erlang?

Most languages used in web development have closures. A large number of them have event-based frameworks. I found quite a few other candidates poking around in the other languages but lacked the skills or time to evaluate whether they were also structured like Node.js.

I don't mind the existence of Node.js, but the people claiming it's "better than most" make me wonder if they've ever used the "most" they claim it's better than. Erlang in particular. That's something that's "better at the event-driven paradigm than most". Javascript has nothing on Erlang, Javascript's just another C-derived manually-chop-your-code-up-to-work-with-callbacks monstrosity by comparison.

Edit: No, if I were going to pitch Node.js, I would pitch it as "Use the same language on both the client and the server; it's adequate on the client, it's adequate on the server." OK, "adequate" isn't the best pitch but it's honest. The stupidest thing about web development today is needing to know three languages (HTML + browser quirks counts as roughly as complex as a language, client-side JS, server side not-Javascript language) just to get your foot in the door. Having the same language on client and server will probably provide some interesting capabilities, such as the thing mentioned in another comment where your comment formatting code can be run in either place (show on the client exactly what they'll get if they submit, run on the server to validate it), or validation code that is guaranteed identical on both client and server, or several other interesting things I can imagine where you can play games with exactly where something is run. Server-side Javascript just shouldn't be pitched as a "uniquely capable" language in a field full of PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby... "uniquely capable" is Erlang or a the Seaside framework, not Yet Another (Dynamic) Algol Variant.
Very nice vision by Penguin. I can see the iPad being used by little kids all the way up to college students. I wonder how many colleges will give every incoming student an iPad?
from Wikipedia
"After graduating, Einstein spent almost two frustrating years searching for a teaching post,"
Or to put it more succinctly: just because there are stupid and/or dishonest people complaining about bugs in a product does NOT mean there are no bugs in said product or that all claims are baseless.

I would bet any sample of 3000 complaints about the Ford Pinto or any product had at least some stupid and some dishonest ones.
Yeah, i'm not saying the MS change the product dev/team thats behind Opera. I would just look at it as a brand re-building exercise. It doesn't have to be revenue generating, but MS needs to get some developer goodwill behind them.

Buy stake in Opera, maybe adopt it as a default browser, but i would definitely leave the dev process alone. But judging from how large companies act, dreaming this is just silly on my part.
He knows how to make money off of making money very well. But he's no hacker.
None. For people who don't know any better, they just hit "Back" and a visitor is lost. For people who know better, they connect to a VPN quickly, watch the video, then hop back off again :-)
"Try to reframe it as nerds vs the world or even better, nerds vs the normals and then maybe we can talk."

'I suggest' you consider Geek vs Nerd (or even more generally avant-garde vs outlier) to recognize that the antagonism is internal.
ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name

Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this).

Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Microsoft is full of great people, it's just that crazy CEO of theirs.
Do it yourself, and learn the skills along the way.

- If your idea doesn't work, you will at least have new skills to show for your time.

- No-one will be as passionate or committed to your idea as you.

- There are a lot of ideas out there. The ones that succeed are the ones which are backed by passion and commitment.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing and wrote a post about it a week ago: http://mopchopshop.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/the-toyota-witch...

(Note, post happen to have the same title, but totally different content)

I just found Hacker News yesterday, this site is amazing.
First of all, socioeconomic classes are artificial constructs. There's no reason to believe that there are large discontinuities in the probabilities of certain behaviors as income increases, though that is likely the case around poverty level.

From the census document you linked to, here are average household incomes by race:

Asian: $86,185

White, non-Hispanic: $74,102

Hispanic: $51,572

Black: $46,533

If you don't think there are substantial differences there, then we're not going to agree on anything.
let's say that I become good friends with some people of that race. Then, I will see that they are like me, and I will start to find some people of that race attractive too.

You suggest that the primary reason you wouldn't be attracted to someone of a race is because you aren't "good friends" with anyone of that race. In my experience, that is false. For example, I know quite a few Asian girls who prefer dating white guys over Asian guys -- would you suggest they "aren't good friends" with any Asians, or that they are subconsciously racist toward Asians?

Different people have different preferences for what they are attracted to; in many cases, those preferences will be correlated with race (e.g. if a girl likes tall men with dark features and olive skin, she is less likely to fall for a 5'5" Norwegian). That's not racism, that's just human nature.
Worse for us developers that operate in "additional countries later this year."
"Is there high bandwidth that will appear out of “thin air”? "

Yes but it's actually been there the whole time. You know it as broadcast analog TV channels and inefficient MPEG2 digital video. Even a modest cable system can pump a massive amount of data into your home with the right hardware. If Cisco wanted to get aggressive on pricing for infrastructure products we would see a huge increase in bandwidth very quickly.
I'm using a plugin by YC company BackType. it's called BackType connect. I agree that there are some issues with context, especially when it doesnt currently thread stuff. Which is why I opted for those comments to be pushed to the bottom, after regular comments on my blog.
> "New Urbanism comes from a belief that cars and lawns are bad."

I like how you coupled something a lot of people think is bad, with something few people think is bad, and present it as an all-or-nothing choice.

> "Note that the folks who disagree with the premise are perfectly willing to let the new urbanists do their thing."

I disagree. Suburban developers, along with the people who live there, are currently in the process of torpedoing a new mass transit rail system in Seattle - this is something that will take a lot of cars off the road, create new residential and commercial corridors with excellent transit coverage, and make communities more connected. Suburbanites fear the accessibility will destroy the exclusivity of their enclaves (which is probably true), and thus are trying to prevent this from being built.

Whether or not you agree or disagree with the concept of effective mass transit, there's no way you can claim that pro-suburb folk are a-ok with urbanist policies. American cities are littered with stories of urban initiatives torpedoed by people in fear of the destruction of their suburban lifestyles.
++ re: plain. I still think ie5 was the greatest browser Microsoft made, because it was the basic browser that, although it had no bells or whistles, worked on almost EVERY page. If I couldn't see something in Opera or, later, Firefox, I just threw it at ie5 and it worked.
Both of those links engender the proposition that fingernail length is indeed NOT a good indicator of class.

The class status of women as a whole rose significantly in the 80's as women's pay relative to men's rose from 1980 to 1990 (from 60.2% to 71.6%):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?ex=1...
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he thought it would make for good exposure...
Not everyone defines success in terms of dollars. Many people make less money than they could because they're unwilling to comprise their morals or do things they feel take advantage of other people. There are plenty of rich douchebags, and you don't need money to point out that they're douchebags.
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For years I have been trying to learn not to say "I think" before every opinion I express.

As Strunk&White point out: it is redundant verbiage, if you say something it is because it represents what you think, only when you are saying something you don't think (eg., what somebody else thinks) does it make sense to clarify. You would never say "I think that he thinks ...", which is the logical conclusion of the advice the article gives.

Being humble and recognizing that you could be wrong is important, but there are better ways to express this than by preceding all you say with "I think".

Sadly my eloquence is still lacking so I keep automatically resorting to adding "I think" and similar filler, but I try to catch myself and instead think (pun not intended ;) about what I'm actually saying and how can express it more clearly.
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...

The reason they have a "black singles site" is because Black people were bred for their physical abilities rather than their nationality, by their slavemasters. Which is why it's nearly impossible to have 10th or 15th generation Sudanese-american people, for example. Whereas you can trace some white roots back to the Mayflower. Because white people had a choice. I mean, now black people of course have a choice too, but for a really really REALLY long time, they didn't.
And superfluous.
Well Python's lambda's kinna suck for one. As far as I know, Python, Ruby, and PHP all suffer from the fact that all functions are not first class. Also Javascript's prototypal inheritance is pretty neat. I'm not saying js is a "great" language, it's not with out it's crufty bits, but it's a nicer language than most people give it credit for.
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It's times like this I feel like someone needs to tell the American people to grow up and stop acting like scared children. They're so easily manipulated by simple fear tactics. Automobiles are incredibly dangerous simply due to the drivers behind the wheel. Design flaws are the least of your worries. We can't seem to muster the same type of concentrated rage against drunk drivers, texting drivers, or any other impairments that make automobiles less safe. We can't even make laws that make automobiles safer by design. Why aren't side air bags a requirement? or roof air bags? More frequent safety inspections? Bad tires or worn out windshield wipers are so much more dangerous than the statistical improbability of a stuck throttle. It really makes me incredibly angry how capable Americans are of ignoring big problems and focusing on the tiny ones instead. We're doomed as a country if this mindset doesn't change and I'm not sure we don't deserve it.
Also, what tends to happen (either intentionally or as a side effect) of suburbs is that racial and socio-economic groups isolate themselves and can thus not be surrounded by as much diversity as in city living. This happens to some extent in urban centers but it's historically based upon access to amenities for minority populations rather than blatant prejudice.
> I've always thought that the main reason for it is that most people are very easily threatened in their opinions, so without the "I Think", they can feel like they are being attacked.

Probably because they have not thought much about why they hold the opinions they have, and are afraid of any external input that might force them to question their world view.
I don't buy that. The US has a big interest in the Japanese economy that goes well beyond the auto industry. I think it's just media fear mongering. If you do own a Toyota it's hard to ignore so they're going to milk it for every cent it's worth.
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It is not as simple as that. Women going to work in large numbers means they stopped being part of a "leisure class". A non-working wife is a status symbol. It means the man makes enough that his wife doesn't need to work. Nothing is sweepingly one thing or the other. But, in general, long fingernails have historically been a status symbol/class indicator -- long, clean, well-groomed and often decorated (painted, treated with henna, etc), not long and filthy.

Long fingernails are also a fairly strong "sex" symbol. One prostitute wrote in her biography that she could work at the mall by wearing very high heels and long, red fingernails. I will also add that long nails are an indicator of health (trying not to turn every discussion towards my medical condition, but my genetic disorder is how I know this one so well) -- and that tends to be linked to class in that wealthier classes tend to be better fed.
"Well Python's lambda's kinna suck for one."

Not really relevant in this context, as naming things isn't that big a deal. Lambdas are only needed for one-liners and they serve that purpose fine.

"As far as I know, Python, Ruby, and PHP all suffer from the fact that all functions are not first class."

Definitely false for Python, Ruby actually has multiple kinds of first-class functions (for better or for worse, I am assured that in practice it's not a problem), recently false for PHP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#5.3_and_newer ), and to save time, also false for Perl, Lua, ${all functional languages} (pretty much by definition, there), and false for C# as of 3.0.

If you want to play "oh but the support is quirky", Javascript has its own quirks on the closure front:

var i;
var funcs = [];
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
funcs.push(function () { alert(i) });
}
funcs[3]();

What does that alert?

Mind you, that's only a quirk and I wouldn't crucify the language for it, it's arguably correct and sensible once you understand it. The again, Python's scoping is arguably correct and sensible once you understand it, too, but people don't cut it much slack for that.

(The answer is 5 by the way. Compare with Perl, which can actually close on a variable created inside a scope in the function, instead of having just one function-level scope like Javascript. Compare with Python, which does what Javascript does.)
> Can anybody name an example of a field of entertainment that was successfully de-nerdified?

Reddit. (Or great parts of it anyway.)
So do we all need to include our net worth on our profile page now?

Frankly, I'd prefer if our comments stood on their own merits (or lack thereof), but perhaps you've hit upon the next social media craze. Instead of simply using karma scores, we could multiply one's karma by the amount of currency tracked in their covestor account.
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It's nice to see somebody making an effective argument against those high-and-mighty OkCupid data lords. I've read a number of their posts, and they are actually quite careless in making assertions as though they are experts.

Anyone who works with data knows that subtle changes in how you define a metric can lead to drastically different findings. Ever heard the saying: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." In real science, you need to do everything possible to try to prove yourself wrong, and fail. They hardly seem to do anything so rigorous. They choose one metric, see what the outcome is - gasp, something sensational! Write a post about it.
I updated the image, the first one was the wrong image, now it makes more sense
> However, prepending a sentence with "I think/I feel like..." indicates that you are not one of those frustrating people who refuses to consider other people's emotions and opinions.

The only way to show that you are not one of those persons is by what you actually say and by displaying in your ideas an understanding of other people's emotions and options (or making explicit that you do not understand them but would like to).

Prepending "I think/I feel like..." is meaningless boilerplate that can be easily interpreted as condescending or hypocritical if your concern for other people's feelings and opinions is not actually reflected in what follows.
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> No, most people are walking or riding trains. Very few people have cars.

I guess I misinterpreted your "once a critical mass of households own a car" comment.

> Small businesses were about as common as in US suburbs.

Virtually nonexistant in the US suburbs I come from. I think this quality is representative of suburbs in general, but mine may also be an extreme case.