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This is great, but unfortunately assumes you know the exact name of what you're looking for. My suggestion: if the query doesn't return a result using the current algorithm, redirect to a Google query of "%s site:docs.python.org".

As an example, let's look at izip. If I search for itertools.izip using this, it works as suggested - but if I just search for izip, I get "Sorry, nothing was found matching izip." Based on the description of the service, this is correct (but not that helpful - maybe I just didn't feel like typing out itertools). If it fell back to a site-specific Google search, I would instead get a page of search results - and the first result would be the manpage for itertools, which has exactly what I'm looking for within it.
"Verdana is specifically good for body text, because it’s a broad a spacious font"

Apparently Verdana isn't readable enough to guarantee proof-reading by webmasters.
...I don't get the use of "even" either. Google has been acting against ACTA for months.
Spend some time on this site: http://e-drexler.com/

Start with this item at the end of the home page: Changing the narrative in the U.S.

In short, "the establishment", e.g. existing chemists appropriated the buzz Drexler created while not actually doing what he was promoting for the usual parochial reasons plus in many cases a genuine and legitimate fear of what his style nanotech will bring about.
Nope, me too. I've had it for a few weeks. Don't like it much, wastes space, but it's not the end of the world. Oddly enough, the old look is showing up for me now- I'd been using the new look in this browser for weeks.
As a tip, if you enjoy quick startup times, you might want to try running emacs in daemon mode. Just fire up a emacs --daemon instance, and you can then use emacsclient to instantly connect to it.
How many startups are funded entirely by real co-founders? Some, I'm sure, and a lot more now, but is that the exception rather than the rule?

So if you have "normal" investors, unless the board that includes them is really hands off they'll notice and I can't imagine it will help his credibility. If it's that hands off you're in trouble in that they aren't likely to be very committed to the venture.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
So think of this as early warning for next year. Your mom already knows you pretty well and will laugh if you send her a card now to beat the rush.
Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily revenues?
Hello hackers, I shortly release my first android application and had like to know, what are some average normal numbers on the android store? care to share your average revenues, my daily are ~ $10 , is it normal?
There are actually plenty of graphics solutions for USB(2). They all use low-key GPUs with not much power in the 3D department, but the ones I have tested have had no problems with true 3D payloads (accelerated, not SW rendering) of the "simpler" kind such as f.e. Quake 1, and of course no problems at all with any normal desktop usage - if it's just software-framebuffer action (which covers like 95% of anything commonly "desktop/office" with the exception of fullscreen video which can stutter at higher framerates and resolutions) they are a pretty cheap and efficient choice for expanding your desktop or laptop with another screen, without giving any notable burden on the CPU for slinging data.
And what gives them a monopoly? The government(s, local, state and less directly Federal).

You're saying the answer to bad government is more government....
What a superbly timed run on this particular monopoly.
The headline makes it sound like Steve Jobs is being rude to Apple customers, but actually from the article, it seems like he's just curtly informing them of why the iPad price is 15 euros higher in Germany than in other european countries.
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working with paypal and have a customer who submitted a stolen credit card. i reported it to paypal who does not seem to care because the guy keeps placing orders via paypal. i have done my own investigation and called the original card owner who did not even know this was happening and has yet to be alerted by paypal! the person keeps placing orders via paypal, using the same card but changing his name and info. the money goes into and then pulled out of my account yet i am still being charged the fees. at one point paypal insinuated that i was somehow involved! but if this were an instore customer once swiped through a credit card machine it would be spit out and denied. i know it is the same person because my web site guru traced teh same Ip. what can i use instead as my only alternative is to close the paypal account. i have been in business for 20 years and with paypal for as long as they had been in business. i guess they dont care. what else to use?
Wow, it sounds like your app is extremely popular - that sounds like huge traffic, especially for "scaling to that size in 12 months". Right? I am naive, or is this "fairly common" with decent Facebook games?

What is your application? Are you profitable? Very profitable? (Oh god I hope you are very profitable, or some of my apps are screwed - but then again I guess it really depends on the business model and usage characteristics)
Wait. So Comcast actually has tried to filter and cap torrent traffic, and regulation to prevent that practice is bad because the regulatory agency might try to do the same thing? How does that logic possibly work?
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Munger is credited for Berkshire's first major tech investment in BYD. I think, unlike Buffett, Munger unabashedly displays his intellect. It turns a few people off, but if you can get past the brashness, there's much to learn from his approach to thinking.

I also recommend the two books (Seeking Wisdom & Poor Charlie's Almanack). The first is not only about Munger (and Buffett), but about other great thinkers like Darwin, Feynman, Einstein, Mark Twain.

I also definitely recommend watching some of the few videos available of him online:

His talk at CalTech (2008) (requires RealPlayer) 106 min.
http://today.caltech.edu/theater/item?story_id=30623

His USC Law School Speech (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Cy7UwsRPQ

Both are relatively recent, and not in his books.

"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you." -CM
I'd fire you and find someone that is better at judging fit beforehand.
A full third is really very high. Consider apprenticing yourself to someone more experienced for a while to figure out what it is that you are missing while hiring

This advice seems ill-suited to someone founding a startup. A founder is a manger out of necessity, not out of an affinity for people-managing. Are such apprenticeship opportunities readily available?

As someone who has only been on the receiving end of managerial treatment, I agree, emotionally, with your position (and presumably would enjoy working for you). However, I'm not sure it makes rational sense.

It seems you think that you have no responsibility for them other than to fire them when you've decided your 'extended interview' is over.

It's important to note that it's an extended paid interview.

The reason for that is simple economy, hiring people and firing them within 6 months is a very bad investment for the company, that person cost almost as much in time spent getting them up to speed as a person that is productive for multiple years.

I've heard and read assertions to this effect before. Do you have studies (or even anecdotal evidence) you could provide that would quantify this?

This also begs the question of the overall productivity of the team, rather than any given individual, or is that what you mean by time spent getting them up to speed?

if you entice people to leave a job where they've worked for years and you then end up firing because of a mis-judgment them you've caused a real problem.

Possibly, but if the firing is from a startup and the stable job was a larger company, I suggest this is to be considered part of the risk.

I did exactly such enticing with a friend and colleague of mine to a startup which eventually failed (and again to another one, which is perhaps in the process of failing).

His original employer valued him enough that they were more than happy to have him back, even a year later. I expect this to extend to all "A players."
I do when I want to see a larger autosuggest box than the one in the Safari search box. You can adjust the width, but at the expense of the URL box.
I don't know - but I'm not really 100% sure Apple knows, either.
Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity."

In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which suggests to me that I am missing something that is right under my nose. What am I looking at here?
EU governments sure do love their taxes.
performance/scalability isnt the only reason people go with "nosql" solutions, some people just really dont like working with traditional rdbms's

a lot of these stores let you have tighter integration with your language (and its data formats), match your mental model better and sometimes have pretty revolutionary things that you just cant do easily any other way (couchapps + replication etc)
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If you start thinking about investments by incorporating decision trees, I think you will start inverting and questioning the potential investment when it comes down to whether or not you should act. This is really helpful to get yourself in the mindset to look at downside risk and evaluate an investment from all angles.
Do you have another area in which you habitually feel confident and prepared? You can try to isolate those components and then bleed them over into exam-taking.

People also have different motivations and personalities. For example, some people do exams best in a relaxed manner. Others work in a heightened state of awareness. This sounds silly, but I feel like a special forces op in exams, trying to slash through problems. Are you more motivated to dominate an exam curve or to show you're just as good as anybody else? Strategies will differ accordingly.

Lastly, it is my experience that you can practice an absolute sense of confidence. Nothing flashy - think calm, deliberate, relaxed, and very alert. It's easiest if you restrict it to a limited context, but sitting down for an exam is perfect. Compose tests in which you will do reasonably well - maybe by mixing problems you know how to do with more complex ones you'd have to tackle in a more flexible way. Go to the exam site, do the test under exam conditions, and up the difficulty over time. If you don't have enough time to prepare this way, do the same thing but don't take a whole exam. Just practice being confident for the first 5-30 minutes.

EDIT: You mentioned that you have had blackouts and are nervous with the environment. I've never tried this, but I'm sure professors would let you try practicing while they are giving their own exams. Explain you have test anxiety and ask to sit in. (I have to admit, the thought of 'practicing' a circuits final during others' calc exam makes smile. They'll be thinking who the hell is this guy, and why hasn't he ever showed up for class?)

I would also recommend listening to John Eliot's The Maverick Mindset. Take his advice over mine.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he was being rude, I just paraphrased him.

I liked that he's frank about redirecting any potential criticism from Apple to the German government, where it belongs. I don't know that I've ever seen a CEO do this, directly to customers, without pulling any punches.
Jobs is quoted as saying:

Please educate yourself.

That seems rude to me. He might be responding to an equally rude complaint that was sent to him, but it still seems like bad PR to me.
See the comments in http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/btgz5/dear_reddi... or http://de.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aglma/how_do_we_kn... for example
People like posting examples of garbage on Mahalo because the community generally seems to think they are a scummy company.
After the readwriteweb.com "Facebook Login" debacle, this page looks extremely optimized to position itself the same way.

This is just my interpretation.
Sure, but that's not the same as 'a universal replacement', the vga port, hdmi and dvi ports are still the universal way and USB is the exception.

This will change over time, already there are monitors that will connect to USB besides the more conventional standards, such as the samsung 940ux.
you're looking at an attempt to profit from the stupidity of the masses.

1) I want to login to facebook

2) google search for "facebook login"

3) profit (for mahalo)
I guess my thought was that if you had a browser you wouldn't use SMS, but a Twitter app or the web interface.
There's also a lot of Hawkboard info at:

http://elinux.org/Hawkboard
US states sure do love theirs! down to every damn municipality.

I hope Volcker will prevail and US will get VAT finally.
actually, a credit default swap is not insurance at all. thats how we got into the whole sub-prime crisis of 2008.
It's pretty much the intellectual equivalent of Fox News appearing on the Reddit frontpage. You know why they're there, you know what's going to happen, it's not worth looking at.
Amazon payments and google checkout. Google might have the worst customer service around, but their payment system should denie these charges.
I like the design. So let me complain about something else: mailing-list/forum/newsgroup archivers. For instance, search on a certain type of error message, which as a developer I frequently do, and the first couple pages of results are littered with these.

Example:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=python+441+Art...

I wish they would do 2 things:

1. Make sure the original message -- say from the original mailing list, newsgroup, or forum -- is listed first. Not necessarily #1, but above all the scrapers.

2. Consolidate the archivers (mail-archive.com, derkeiler.com, pubbs.net, etc.) into a single entry, perhaps with sublistings or something.

Now where's the Google suggestion box?
People in Europe usually have the VAT included in the advertised price, so I can see how people would be getting their hopes up when seeing the american prices.
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Hell, yeah! And I’m happy about it. High taxes but a lot of bang for the buck.
I actually shed a tear. I wish Canada was really like this.
Notes from Charlie Munger's latest Q&A (just a couple weeks ago):

http://www.scribd.com/documents/31051057/2010-Wesco-Annual-M...
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Throughout history innovation and technology progressed and then became regulated, once regulated entrenched powers used regulation to stifle competition and cement their positions. This has happened again and again. Look at the history of the ICC for a brief example.

If this was in reaction to a serious problem some might say it's justified, but as of right now we don't have any problems so lets let things progress naturally.
When he says "can't", he doesn't mean it's impossible, he means it's infeasible. There are no techniques for doing it fast enough that anyone has to worry about it being done.
besides, meddling in politics of foreign state... not very smart thing to do for a CEO
Well I'd say normal probably depends entirely on what type of application you wrote, and whether it's a paid app or ad supported.
Not in the UK.
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>the only ISP that's allowed to serve an area

Your pointing to a regulated market, saying its bad, and using that as you argument for regulation. I'm sorry but I don't follow...
I'm not suggesting funding entirely by co-founders but, rather, controlled by them.

It also seems a bit like speculation, unless you're a VC or angel who has seen this.
this absolutely freaks us out in US - that we never see actual prices we're supposed to pay, only share of what seller is supposed to get (before paying her taxes).
I am loving his curt responses. Too many people on the internet are quick to complain without prior thought or research; nice to see them being put in their place.
Especially the section: "Common Misspellings of Facebook" which is clearly to grab searches that contain typos.
OK, but the price differences are not just "before tax" vs "after tax". For instance, a friend of mine broght me this N900 from USA to Spain. After-tax comparison: 400€ vs. 600€.
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I just googled "facebook login" and the results were:

1. www.facebook.com/login.php

2. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6147172660&topic=4...

3. apps.facebook.com/onthefarm (apparently many people go straight there and are hit with the login, this is the url for Farmville)

4. www.mahalo.com/facebook-login

So this link is the first non-facebook link. I bet they get some good page views from it.
In cases where a monopoly was given to them is because ISPs demanded it; otherwise they would not have entered the market and lot of folks would've had to go without Internet. So who's the bad guy again?
niiiice. Though I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here.
My only problem is the left justification of search results. On a wide-screen monitor, it's a little awkward.
"If there are crazy computer algorithms in the market doing crazy things, guess what, that makes it much easier to make money! We rational humans can outsmart algo's gone wild with ease, right?"

Wrong. I'm sure the dive in Accenture, et. al, happened so quickly that no human had time to react. Here's the graph:

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...

And I'm sure even that misrepresents to some degree the speed with which the blip happened.

That's the lesson I took away from this. Don't even think of trying to out-react a Wall Street supercomputer. If I was a day trader, I'd hang it up.

Are we going to get to see the logs for the Accenture trades on that day? I'm guessing that it was a handful of algorithmic trading systems belonging major institutional investors -- or a couple trading bots belonging to the same house! -- that got into some weird feedback loop that drove it down and then right back up.

What's interesting to note on the graph above: there's a major spike in trade volume, but it appears to come about an hour before the drop.
It was "Scoop" Nisker, a longtime reporter and commentator on KFOG in San Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Nisker).
well, judging from what some UK politicians are saying, UK will soon be even less part of EU than it sort of is now.
It was the excess underpriced leverage that got us into the whole subprime crisis of 2008. CDS's are financial tools that allow buyers and sellers to expose themselves to certain risks. Whether this is used for insurance/hedge or as a bet on a certain outcome is and should be at the discretion of the buyer/seller.
Oracle has been extremely hostile to former sun customers. I can't even download firmware now without buying service contracts for all my servers.

If they won't even provide proper service to hardware customers, I think they will be downright hostile to a competing bread and butter product that they now control.
Telling people why a product is more expensive (or, seems more expensive) is not "meddling in politics". He either tells them the reason, or he ignores the email. I'd prefer the former, personally.
until the debt get too high...
As annoying as it can be I actually think its a good thing that the amount you're paying in taxes is listed separately because then you are forced to see what you're paying in taxes.

I live outside Chicago and in some areas around me the sales tax is >10% (10.25 in the city I believe). The fact that you see what your paying in taxes every time you buy something makes it harder for the politicians to raise it too high.

Edit: Fixed Typo
I think you should continue working on it. If nothing else it builds your personal code library up. I'm not sure how many apps in general use ncurses anymore, but I don't think it's going anywhere.

I'm actually developing a console-based ruby app right now. What would have been useful for me however is something to easily work with a REPL (including commands, subcommands, etc.) without a) having to drop into a full IRB session b) any assumptions that I want to parse an ARGV-like line with --long-switches and whatnot. I don't.

cmdparse is the closest, but still isn't good enough.

Thanks for doing the work on your project. Open-source authors don't get thanked often enough if their project isn't used by millions.
Does Google show Linux has fewer CPU performance problems than Windows?
I remember reading that bosses are most likely to have a heart attack while firing people. It's not easy.
Sales tax in my municipality is less than half of UK's VAT, and food and clothing are exempt from it. You're right, I sure do love it.
"App makers feel comfortable investing in the Apple platform and even having most of their business depend on them in a way they don’t on Facebook or Twitter."

I don't think that's true at all. The headaches on the iPhone platform are many times larger, and the profit many times less. The smart money is in Facebook games, by far. The amount of money invested in making Facebook apps far exceeds that of iPhone.
But why would anyone click anything other than the top link anyway?
Or Apple App Store revenues too, if you're willing.
It's worse than even that. Because top-tier hedge funds and investment banks can afford the genuinely insane fees to put their gear as physically close to the exchange as possible they can effectively front-run everyone else including other algo systems, which in situations like this it is particularly advantageous. The nature of the inequal playing field, combined with warring algos mean there is now no real connection whatsoever between an instrument's price and reality below a certain time period. Insane doesn't begin to cover what we've created and the power it wields.
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I have the opposite experience. I work extensively with SBCs both as a user and a software developer. It is a pain in my butt when there is no ethernet port.

There are a lot of applications where wifi is not a better solution than ethernet. I work on robotics and wifi doesn't make sense. We are pushing a lot of data around in near real time and the SBCs are permanently mounted close together. Why use wifi there? We see better performance (network and power consumption wise) and simpler setup with ethernet. We usually will have a half dozen SBCs on a switch and then in some cases a wifi access point that is optional. When we are debugging in the field we turn on the AP and stream data back to a tablet or netbook to observe, but otherwise it is off.

The other problem with not having connectors on the board is dongle and price creep. If I have 6 SBCs, and each one needs some kind of networking adapter external to it, all of sudden my nice neat solution is a mess of wires. And the price jumps from $89 to $139, multiplied by however many I am using.