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I know arxiv is where all the cool kids hang out, but here's the site and the code:

http://ldeniau.web.cern.ch/ldeniau/cos.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cos/
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Communism ended twenty years ago. Blaming it for any aspect of today's Russia would like blaming the Tsar in 1937, which Communists actually did, BTW :-)
Unless that assumption would lay the blame for a catastrophe on wealthy people and require changes that would make them less wealthy, in which case we cannot take selfishness for granted and have to assume their motivations are altruistic (if misguided). You really need to be up-to-date on modern market ideology.
All the dude gave was a brief description of his experience in response to what the original poster asked for. Calm down pg, you are not a god.
1. ~12 months
2. I applied to Startl (same concept as YC, but focused on companies in the education space). I'm waiting to hear back (interview was last week).
3. No, TAG has not raised institutional money, although I'm strongly considering going down this road soon.
4. http://www.theascendancegroup.org
Slate and Rolling Stone continue to be some of my favorite websites strictly because of this level of reporting. When I first heard of Gottam's claim in a separate article on another site my immediate thought was "anyone can. They'll just say everyone stays together and get 80% accuracy." This is the problem with non-scientific researchers. They don't want to learn about statistics. They want easy, simple claims that everyone can understand. The corresponding problem with the media is that they do not understand science well enough to be critical of researchers' claims.
He was a math major and should certainly know better and thoroughly know his methods. I am unwilling to give the benefit of the doubt in this case.

Update: Also, he did it twice, and the article implies he has continued doing it. That's way beyond simple methodical error.
"A math major at MIT before he switched to psychology"

How does someone go into a math major at MIT without a basic grasp of statistics? And to then spend years studying the field and other lab reports? How could he fail to pick this up?
> My own view (without academic seal of approval) is that efficiency is the main factor that determines our well-being.

Well, "productivity" for efficiency, but yes, you're essentially correct. I wasn't trying to defend Aaron's post, and indeed, economists do differ, widely, on various things. It's a relatively recent field, one where there are lots of messy human factors, and of course it's difficult to do many experiments.

I'd rather not see it here, though, as it usually rapidly devolves into essentially political discussions.
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There's an interesting book called Object Oriented Programming with ANSI C, which is on various websites as a PDF. As someone who didn't do computer science at undergraduate, it explained a lot about how other languages work - for example why Python passes self (well, self by convention) automatically to every method.

Edit: It's reference [40] on the paper.
1) current project - 1 month
2) applied last summer with a different project - rejected. Current project will not be applying.
3) that previous project had raised $30K. Current project is more of a proof of concept.
4) I'll post a review my app link in a week or two.
How is it being 15h15 not consistent with a clock reading 3:14? They are 1 minute out.

I thought it was one of the Easter Eggs as explained above.
> the iPhone Developer Enterprise Program is available to companies with 500 or more employees and a Dun & Bradstreet number.

Android is available to... anyone.
It's a snowclone of the "price of tea in china" dismissal.

But I've never heard it used in such a poor context.
C macros, surely.
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I'd say it would only be fraud if he misreported his methods in his papers. I think the Slate author just says that she assumed his methods to have been different than they were, after reading Gladwell's story about them.

Also, it seems to me that if you make a model that fits the data, that doesn't at all mean that it doesn't have predictive power. You could fit it with one data-set, and test it on another one. It just means that you now have a purely empirical model, with no built-in assumptions on why it is so.
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Try open one of them flash based porn sites.
Ok, what about if the opposite was true?

How do you handle situations where the idea is (in your opinion) great but the person is perhaps lacking for whatever reason?

Is this a situation where you pass or do you take a proverbial punt? Have you done so in the past (don't need to name names to save someone's ego)
Came here to say that. The fact that the script was called "1 hr slots" distorts the mental exercise, and deceitfully leads the reader to a logical outcome that would not be the case.
I wish I had been foresighted enough to realise that the icons were more than the occasionally useful result of a period of insomnia. The set was started because I could not find a good icon set to use in a system I was developing.

I have done almost no icon design since this set was released; The icons have garnered me some personal infamy, and I make a little from text link ads, but I would kill the site if not for the fact that people still appear to find the icons useful and reliable.

For personal work, I use the fugue set linked previously.
That's an amazing demo. What's the price-per-pixel compared to E-Ink?
Android might be catching up, but it is also fragmented. When developing for Android you don't know what features the phone has. It's going the way of Java Mobile.
Is about whether metrics gathered from a 15 minute session, in which a man and woman argue a contentious issue, can accurately predict divorce rates. The metrics are primarily measured using facial recognition software it seems. John Gottman, who claims to predict divorce with a 91% accuracy, is the main subject. QI.
It is a dirty lie. Try:

# aptitude -v moo
# aptitude -v -v moo

etc.
What's wrong with a "follow-up" or "waiting for reply" label?
you do realize that twitter has an official sms thing, which was the thing that made it popular in the first place?
Not INconsistent :) But yes, it appears to be an easter egg.
> Notice it says "... committed transactions are visible to all future transactions (consistent), ..."
> This is not correct because the data can be overwritten by a subsequent transaction.

It seems the paper is completely wrong here. AFAIK the C in ACID means that the integrity constraints in the database will always hold, i.e. no foreign key may reference a non-existing row. This would explain why they changed it in the later version of the paper.

Your reference to the Haerder, Reuter paper is interesting. It seems they kept the definition of consistency pretty vague.
The landing page lists the word connect twice. Might be a typo or is it a clever play on "dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!".
Wasn't that supposed to be Google Voice?
History shows that walled-garden approaches are severely limited in their scope. They don't scale. If you read the article it says

> As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!

If those figures are accurate then it's not a horse race. The iPhone is dead. Do the math on growth rates. The iPhone is dead as the dominant platform and will soon occupy the small niche that its closed nature consigns it to.
Very simple, aesthetically pleasing interface. My only complaint is that I don't immediately see how this is any better than the alternatives (sending an email which gets sucked in by Google calendar, Outlook, etc.). Also, I'm asked to start putting information before I have a chance to find out.

Didn't investors have a saying 10 years ago, YAC (Yet Another Calendar)? What makes this clearly different?
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Doesn't change the fact that large businesses have a way to get around having to use the App Store. Small businesses can use 'ad hoc' distribution which lets you distribute to 100 iPhones. Your point was based on the assumption that the App Store is the only way a business can distribute an app to iPhones. This is not the case.
"I've said it before and will say it again: Repeating yourself is what effective teaching is all about.

...

But, most importantly, you need to say the same thing over and over because most people didn't hear you the first time, and even if they did, the world keeps making more people. If nobody ever reposts or retweets the classics, they rapidly become forgotten."

I don't disagree with you. However, there is such a thing as overdoing it. And I feel that it's just as dangerous to do that as it is to not repeat yourself enough. After all, in saying something too many times, you're diluting your message.

Plus, posting these things on Hacker News is preaching to the choir. The companies that use NDAs probably aren't going to read hacker news. Neither are the "waterfall" developers.
Not including the iPod Touch is a mistake, in my opinion. Also, you have to account for the issues with apps on different versions of Android. I'd love this competition to be as close as the article makes it out to be, but I don't think it's there quite yet.
CPP is the C Preprocessor, not to be confused with C++.
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CPP is "C PreProcessor", so your "C macros" are simply some subset of uses of "CPP macros". CPP can be (ab)used to preprocess other things than C source.
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Care about search privacy? Duck Duck Go no longer logs IPs.
There are porn sites that have started supporting H.264, possibly in order to cater to the iPhone users, although I have no data to back up that assumption.
yes, it's easy for us to spot and will not help the application
Hahahaha, I never thought about that, but if it gets me traffic, I'm in trouble.
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Why do you guys insist on a cofounder. Harj, you of all people should know that alot of the coding work can be outsourced. A visionary sometimes doesnt like having an equal to deal with.
Yea, looking back, I agree... I cringe at Twitter 2.0, but I feel for people that aren't familiar with technology, it will get the point across.

The Network Effect, you're probably right there. I'll update that. Thanks.

On #3, lol... exactly.
The "Screw YC" attitude can actually be healthy. You will spend less time thinking, wondering about YC and trying to impress YC and more time on building an actual product.

This is especially true if you arnt building some lame YC-approved social networking app that no one will ever use. If you are truly buidling something people want, you already have the greatest asset.
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The only thing I would make someone feel inferior for is using a tool that's wrong for the job just because of 'personal preference'.

I write Ruby and JavaScript as easily 99% of my work, does that mean I never pick up Erlang or Scala or even C? Of course not, to do that out of stubbornness or some perceived loyalty to my platform would make me a very poor programmer indeed.

Besides, that's not what you're saying. Your comment was pretty well flat out saying functional programming is useless and people only do it to look smart. That, clearly, is a load of crap.
Heh, yea -- I'm not sure the value with Twitter isn't extremely exaggerated, though. It's a news source middle-man.
All of which had an industrial base before communism. Poland through Prussia, Hungary and Czech through AustroHungarian Empire.

Those that suffered most from the pill were countries with the more agricaltural backgrounds.
Those thinking of building something like that should check out http://www.clearcontext.com/pro/ that adds this feature in Outlook.
What's weight mess mean?

I admit, I'm definitely not a designer, and I'm looking for feedback.

I'll update the header look/feel.

-s
That was the visceral feeling I got about a day after I received my Nexus One. It's Mac vs Windows all over again.
If he now interviews a new set of couples, does his predictions according to the developed model, and it _still_ gives high accuracy, then we can call it science.

The power of a good model lies not in how good it predicts what you know, but how it can be used to model unknown/new phenomena.
Well he did mention that he thought we'd be a bit further along the technology track by then.
This is definitely a killer niche to fill given the current privacy conscious climate [around here]. Kudos.
"We prefer to remain flexy, solidifying our plans incrementally as the date approaches."

As a young person, I read this as: I'll come to your party if nothing better comes up.
If you believe in the idea, just go ahead and build it.

I have seen a couple of times that the idea did not make any 'sense' to me during ideation stage, but when was presented with a working application - I just 'saw' it as needed!

For certain ideas, the way they are executed matters a lot.
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They do not insist on it: they have funded a few single founders. It's just a model they see works well, so, all other things being equal, they go for it.
Agreed. It's definitely something people need, but isn't it something people already have?
I think it's more along the lines of "better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to speak up and remove all doubt"
wow. this looks very interesting. the web site says that it's beta. does anyone have experience / anecdotes about how solid it is? seems like it would be very useful.

also, what approach does it take to memory management and / or deciding who owns what? i'm just glancing at the paper now (should really be working) and the lack of emphasis on that seems worrying - suspect i am missing something?

[edit: replying to myself, the key phrase is "ownership"; see section 2.1: Ownership The management of object life cycles requires a clear policy of ownership and scope rules. In languages like C and C ++ where semantic by value prevails, the burden is put on the programmer’s shoulders. In languages like JAVA, C # and D where semantic by reference prevails, the burden is put on the garbage collector. In this domain, COS lets the developer choose between garbage collection (e.g. Boehm GC [25]) and manual reference counting with rich semantic (section 3.5).]
Can't quote a source, unfortunately, but I read a long essay last month which used the original diplomatic notes to research this "NATO Promise" business. Long story short -- there was never a promise not to expand NATO.

EDIT: Dug up a couple from Google, although they weren't the ones I was referring to.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/13/a_diplomati...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16...
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No, my point was that Android is open, Apple is not.

There may be some businesses out there who just don't want to go through all that bureaucracy and hoop jumping to do something new and interesting. Android gives them that possibility, Apple does not.
Dude you potentially miss a lot of opportunities when you filter on the basis of having a cofounder. PG claims a startup is too much work for one person. duh. Thats why you hire employees.

And things are never all else equal.
I'm 24, which means I'm just young enough to only know about Gorbachev's premiership through history textbooks. This is not the first time I've seen him back in the headlines, but it's still an incredibly weird feeling every time that I do. It's like hearing from a ghost.
Really nice looking interface. Would like to see how much the Pro version costs without having to sign up.
Captain, I don't see the relevance of your question.

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Am I being cynical with noticing that this comes right after your brand awareness post?
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Except that Android is way more open than Windows ever was, which makes it that much cooler.

Also, regarding the someone hyperbolic grandparent post, iPhone will always have its place, just like Macs have survived nearly 30 years despite being the more tightly controlled platform. Likely (and hopefully), that niche will let them continue to do interesting, beautiful things, without ever coming close to dominating the market, which is a very scary prospect for fans of 'open'.

Also, in terms of the "dominant" platform, outside of the slightly-behind-the-mobile-times Silicon Valley, which seems to have only started noticing mobile phones with the iPhone, the dominant platform, by a long shot, is Java ME.
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Count on economists to have the lamest jokes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whats_that_got_to_do_with_the.....
Makes you wonder how many of the other studies in Gladwell's books are equally flawed
Normally, I'm not the one to raise a fuss about duplicating stories, but this is an exact duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191625

I wonder how the filter didn't catch this? It's the same URL and everything.
I'm somewhat surprised he's chosen to take such a dump on his own credibility. I'm sure he has genuine misgivings about the way Apple's App Store process works. But this level of breathless hyperbole in the same post as an announcement that he now works for an iPhone competitor is like titling your blog entry "I am now a shill". Just a year ago he wrote

"The iPhone has proved that a mobile device can really truly be a first-class citizen of the Net."
So ok, I just peeked at the paper and it seems great, but the disadvantage of being in C is that you end up with a lot of macros (like e.g. `defclass`): what with debugging?
Consequences of past events or situations are felt for a long time through the mechanism of culture - which acts as a sort of collective societal memory. People who have not lived the traumatic situations assimilate their teachings through culture.

Blaming Tsar's influence and Communism is perfectly reasonable, just as blaming HDR or McCarthy's heritage in the US.
Well, it's their money, they do as they see fit. If some other, similar seed-funding group accepts lots of single founders and does better than YC, maybe they'll change.

It's not just them saying this, though. I really wish I had someone to work with myself; it would help things a lot.
The original post doesn't start with www. this one does.
Yup. I meant to write that post two weeks ago when I did the poll, but got too busy.

This came about from comments on reddit. I gave it a lot of thought over the past few days and decided to pull the trigger.
Can you point to a really good SaaS system for handling appointments and billing? (please! I'm looking for one)

Three random use cases:

* Medical and pseudo-medical practices

* Oven cleaning companies and other property maintenance services

* Advice services

Does something like Google Calendar work well for that? You could use it when you have a diary secretary in the way, but not if you want a self-service element.
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Yes, that seems correct. The Wikipedia entry explained consistency best for me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID#Consistency

which is as you say with the keys for normal databases.

It made clear for me the distinction between application level consistency, the bits that have to be enforced by the program, and database level consistency, which can vary depending on the sophistication of the database, and is enforced by the database. I hadn't really thought about that before. I suppose you could have a database that was less clever and left most of the consistency to the application but still be ACID compliant so long as you defined the scope of the database consistency carefully.
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Ask HN: What's your startup's URL ?
To start off,

Mine is cakefaq.com
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I don't need to care if people retain my IP. I'm on a netbook and mobile 99% of the time.
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This is basically the same article Aaron wrote early last year:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/depressions

The difference is that now he says it's all because Ben Bernanke wants to, um, profit on his dollar-denominated holdings. Which is sort of like claiming that the CEO of Exxon really believes in global warming, but he wants his next beach vacation to be .1 degrees warmer.
What was the original reason to store IPs?
Ask HN: shouldn't there be a way to undeadify users?
In HN, when a user is banned all his new comments are marked as dead and are invisible to most people... I understand the reason for this and I quite agree that it's a good way to fight spam.

But, often, I see comments marked as dead even though they contribute to the discussion and looking at the history of those users, they sometimes have left interesting comments for the past year without realizing that no one could read them...

So, could there maybe be a way to guard against this? Maybe a link to undeadify a comment that marks up the banned user for review? Because I'm quite sure we lose quality conversation from that and that's a pity...

This rant was triggered by seeing the dead comment from jaiwithani...
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Well, its not simply about the US being unorganized but more about how it wants payroll tax.
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Even so, your sessions would be obvious in the log, i.e. one could tie multiple searches together. But to your broader point, some people care about privacy, some don't.
Well, to be fair, if I give you the data set:

a=1 b=2 d=4 e=5 f=6

and you predict that c=3, you are not committing fraud.

The gold standard would be testing on some more couples and finding the model he made is predictive.

However, I would be convinced by a strong correlation (i.e. the model is not overfitted), coupled with a plausible model. I'm not a statistician - does anyone know if there is a measure of how over-fitted a model is based on degrees of freedom and size of sample?
At least as this article describes it, it's not even predictive on its face.

He did not assess "fresh" couples, and come back a few years later to see how they fared. Rather, he interviewed people who were already either having trouble or they weren't. Although I haven't studied it for proof, I have to assume that the interactions of a honeymoon couple will be different from a couple in trouble, even if the honeymoon couple is destined to have problems. Thus, he's not able to interview the honeymoon couple and determine what their prospects are.
No, it wasn't. Your point was if you are business, Android might have an advantage because Apple 'sticks its nose in [your] affairs'. Yes Android is more open. Yes putting apps on your iPhone without the App Store is more of a hassle. But it is possible and relatively straightforward. And it's not what you said. Which is fine, lots of people don't know about Apple's alternative distribution programs. It's better to be wrong than to be a weasel, though.
Analytics. Google et al. also use it for personalization, though I never did that.