skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France is then lending 66% twice as much as Germany to Greece. '66% more' than Germany is significant IMO. So much for the theory that this was largely for bailing out German banks.

Basically France' banks are being bailed out (plus a lot of other countries incl. UK and US).

Germany is not especially exposed to Greece's problem. Germany also provides only 11% of Greece imports (though Germany has 20% of the EU GDP). Greece's problems are home made (lots of weapons imports, large military, corruption, country run by a few families, ...). The decision to spend billions on military ships, submarines, military aircrafts, tanks, etc. is entirely political.
The result is a google search page.
It can be difficult to evaluate track records sometimes, and humans are particularly bad at doing so.

If you do something once or twice, it's just something that you've done. If you do something three times or more, especially in a short time frame, it becomes "that thing you always do", even if it's something that's very uncommon for you to do. Human perception is very quirky and prejudicial, keep that in mind.
This presents an interesting paradox though because at the end of the day a decision is required. Do I eat thing X or thing Y? And in what proportion? So when a set of things is not well understood but a decision is required, many non science strategies enter. So what can be done about this?
I'd love to see mustache http://mustache.github.com/ ported over to Haskell now. (Maybe this would make a good pet project.)
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When I've tried to explain Haskell to Ruby folks, I mention that at some point you are likely to be writing unit tests that amount to type checks. Maybe not always, or maybe not explicitly, but the value/effort ratio of writing a type signature in Haskell is at least as good as the corresponding test code you would write in Ruby. And you don't even have to write the type signature all the time, but you still get the type checking benefits.
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Haha, yeah.

But, regarding Daniel's humorous post, a combination of cute girls in geeky shirts is more sad than funny, don't you think? In a meta sense:

"Why is this remarkable?"

It's like posing sleeping kittens and babies with 40s of Mad Dog. The humor is in the incongruity. Meaning...

1. We don't talk to cute girls

2. We wish cute girls wore these nerdy shirts so we'd feel validated

3. The girls who actually do wear these shirts, we don't like

4. Boooo.
A very nice summary (I have lived in and about Silicon Valley for 42 years and can say firsthand that your description is very accurate).

From a larger perspective, though, the last laugh is actually on San Francisco. Back in the day, those in the City used to laugh at the whole Peninsula and South Bay culture and used to mock San Jose in particular as "plastic city." All the while, San Francisco stagnated while the Peninsula and South Bay flourished, leaving the City as an also-ran in the development of Silicon Valley (yes, it is thriving in its own way today, but the City used to be the only place where it was really worthwhile to do business and it lost that status long, long ago and has persisted with a fixed population level since the 1970s - no absolute growth at all, while the rest of the area has exploded during the past several decades). In this sense, "boring" really won the day in the end as people moved out more and more to the sticks and set up shop there with their startups throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s (only this past decade has SF seen some measure of a tech revival).
Sorry you feel that way, at least it's optional. The idea is that we are interesting in doing DOM-level transformations bound to html tags and there just isn't a robust HTML5 DOM parser available for Haskell.
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I was trying to get going with yesod earlier this evening, and all props to Michael Snoyman, but seeing the Snap Web site makes me far more motivated to try it, and more confidence in what it does.

But, as dons pointed out, crappy docs is not limited to Haskell by any means.

If you want to see your project gain traction it has to be stupid easy for people to jump in and start playing, and solid Web site with serious docs is a big win there (as are project generators and copious examples).
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You mean "intrinsic motivation" not "ulterior," which denotes something else entirely :)
> Check out attoparsec-iteratee http://hackage.haskell.org/package/attoparsec-iteratee for an example of iteratee usage: it turns a fast bytestring parser into one that's based on iteratees, which will probably end up being even faster.

Iteratees don't really make things "faster" (you end up with a sequence of imperative read()/write() calls just like everything else), but they allow you to stream in O(1) space while still being easily composable.

For example, we do gzip, buffering, & chunked transfer encoding using simple function calls, and we don't really have to worry about explicit buffer management or control flow while we're doing it.
Here are some optimizations that use runtime information:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=346037
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=353191
West Germany was competitive with the Deutsche Mark before. It ran trade surpluses then, too.

Many German goods are not competing based on price. A luxury car like BMW, Mercedes, Porsche and others doesn't compete (much) on price. Many smaller companies also are market leader not on price, but on service and product quality. China buys German machines and tools not because they are cheap. The US bought offshore wind turbines from Siemens for the Cape Cod wind farm not because they are competitive on price, but because they are the best available turbines for offshore wind farms.

For much of the German export industry it makes no difference where they export. If the Euro makes it easy, then many exports go to Eurozone countries. If not then more exports go to other countries outside the Euro zone. The Euro was overvalued in the last year - with the Euro going down, exports to other countries will strengthen.
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What would you suggest for "populate placeholders in a string and send it out" page rendering?
I noticed some type of virus recently would send you to different links instead of the ones you were searching on Google. Maybe you have some kind of extension on that?
You listen to science and not to crackpots who pretend to do science. Note that most advice regarding nutrition appearing in newspapers/blogs is total crap (as opposed to science).

If you can't distinguish science from crap (or can't be bothered to search for science) I would suggest you go with what seems reasonable to yourself.
I too use pre-paid only. I pay less than $7/month w/Virgin mobile.
I do look longingly at smartphones. But it's just not worth it for me with current structure of plans. They're either voice-centric, which i'd never use, or data-centric in ways i don't need.
i'm near a computer w/internet access most of the time.
I love the Internet, and do all the dorky social networking things that make me somebody who should be slurping access from everywhere. I'll gladly drop bank for something that fits me, but i'm basically waiting out the entire old school phone system :D
In the meantime, i have a bad phone. I bet there will be Android phones soon on the big pre-paid systems.
Languages are constantly evolving. Sharing a written script encourages different dialects to borrow words from each other in their written form. Sharing a phonetic script would instead encourage them to also borrow words in their phonetic form. So dialects might drift closer over time.

Long term changes aside, a phonetic script would make learning standard Chinese and dialects faster, so children could learn both their local dialect and the government standard (Mandarin) as part of their schooling.

The main problem with a phonetic script would probably be the varying phonetic inventories of the different dialects/languages within China. I'm not sure if you could make a phonetic script that would work beyond the main dialects.
Pardon my cynicism, but, those who haven't learnt Chinese well tend to exaggerate its difficulty as a pretext to their failure, and those who have do the same to accentuate their achievement. If you are weighing whether to learn Chinese and deterred by its supposed difficulty, I hope you'd take that into account.
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> One thing I learned was that most short words are negative or at least excessively blunt.

There's an interesting reason for that.

Although English contains elements from numerous languages, it's two primary ancestors are French and the Germanic Anglo-Saxon.

In the middle ages, most of the English peasantry spoke Anglo-Saxon. The nobility, however, all spoke French for several hundred years after William the Conquerer invaded in 1066.

To this day, that ancient split in languages is still obvious. Everyday words in English, including words for animals, household words and swear words, tend to be Germanic: short, guttural and abrupt.

Words to do with civic society, culture and the ruling class are usually from French. They are usually longer and sound more refined. Examples: parliament, judiciary, government, etc.
I usually trip up on the "induct on n" part.

I sometimes get "out of memory" errors; restarting sometimes help.
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I propose an experiment rather than making an assumption that it's not important.

Randomly change the username on new posts from users that have a low average points per post (ppp)to a top 20 user in terms of ppp.

If there is no effect of username on ppp, then the difference between the users true average ppp and the randomly assigned one will be large, if there is an effect it will be approximately zero. We could test this statistically easily enough.

What say you pg?
Wait, with the strong Deutsche Mark West Germany had trade surpluses all the time.

German's core competitiveness is not based on price. Price has an influence, but countries buying a German (Siemens) gas turbine for a power station don't do it because it is especially price competitive. They do it because of its technical qualities mostly. Same for the High Voltage DC lines that Siemens sells to China. Same for the high-speed trains that Siemens sells to China, Russia, Spain, ...

Siemens HVDC systems in China: http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/energie_elekt...
Yes you are right, it was unfair to say that its because it is the last todo item for Haskell projects. However I feel that it is even more important for Haskell projects to actually do that last item. I've seen several webframework projects like hApps, Happstack, turbinado which are probably great pieces of software but hard to get started on. Personally for me it is a lot harder to start doing Haskell web development coming from a background of MVC based web development. Even though I know Haskell better than python or ruby, it is easier for me to pick up python or ruby frameworks because the way I think in writing web applications (which is mainly imperative). This is where great documentation comes into play. Snap framework seems to offer this transition easier, so will definitely take a peak at it!
One of my favorite insights from Steve Blank is "you fail if you stay a startup." I strongly recommend watching his Startup Lessons Learned Conference presentation (link below). The differences between startups and established companies run deep and most entrepreneurs don't make the transition from the former to the latter.

http://startup-marketing.com/steve-blanks-sll-keynote-its-a-...
I personally like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HStringTemplate for that.
I can't resist the urge to click my fingers along to these ;) Great combination of beat detection and timestretching.
I'd take a set of 250 good icons over 2400 random ones, any day. http://iconkits.com/ - http://stockicons.com/
except that WM7 is a subset of iPhone OS features and includes all those that people so dislike on the iPhone (just as controlled, if not more so)
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Ask HN: Who is actually doing Customer Development?
Founders, are you doing customer development? Why or why not?

For those who are, what have you found to be the most useful aspect of it? The hardest?

I ask because it seems like the HN and lean startup communities don't overlap that much and I'm curious why.
MPEG-LA should just ask Google for half the money they're going to spend this year on development, YouTube conversion, marketing and legal defense for VP8, distribute the windfall to the companies in their patent pool, and submit H.264 to SMPTE or IEEE. Everyone gets a free, high-quality codec, the patent pool gets a big buyout, and Google saves a lot of time and money. It's hard to imagine them actually doing that, though.
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Ah, sorry, I thought I explained it good enough, German here. I made a custom search with those parameters. It works fine. But if I then enter a new search term on the website's search box itself, not through my custom search, the parameters are dropped. That also happens if I reach a site where I have to choose the category and then get to a result page for that specific category, for example if I search for "test": http://duckduckgo.com/?kf=-1&kz=-1&kd=-1&q=test

Then I have to choose a category, I click on http://duckduckgo.com/Test_(student_assessment) and there the parameters are gone.
Happy Birthday, Alan. Your vision and deep understanding of what we do and how far we have to go, especially in an industry that thinks, like that apocryphal Charles Duell quote, that we're already there, is a present to us all.
As a Ruby folk, I somewhat agree. Unit testing is essential in a dynamic language otherwise things are going to blow up.

However, this doesn't really blow up the number of test cases. If you're unit testing dynamically typed languages versus unit testing statically types languages, there is negligible number of test cases that would exist in Ruby for the purposes of type checking (over said statically typed language; there are type checking cases for when you're switching on type, obviously).

In fact, I find that writing tests in a dynamic language becomes easier over time because of the abstractions that are easier to generate in dynamically typed languages. Some of those abstractions may be possible in statically type languages, but it's significantly more difficult.

Disclaimer: I've never written tests (only 'toy' code) in Haskell.
As I understand, LLVM has been adding support for GCC extensions for quite a while to make such things possible one day.

You can already/soon build a FreeBSD system with it.
I recently had an account with Wells Fargo that I used for my short-lived startup. We didn't use it heavily but didn't have any problems.
jQuery is a monad. It's a giant scope that contains information and subroutines.
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No surprises here. Nothing serves as a better poster child for that "uncanny valley" just outside Silicon Valley than San Jose.

San Jose is literally the end-of-the-line on Caltran and has no single "cultural" or "business" identity of its own.

In the bay area, the cream (e.g. money) continues to "rise northward". Given a choice, why would anyone choose to live "so close, yet so far" away from the economic or cultural center of activity?

They don't.

They choose either to pay the "Bay Tax" in terms of congestion and fixed living costs to be "in the center" of things, xor reap the significant cost savings, but relative isolation, of living well outside the region (Portland, Boulder, etc.).
I feel like we go round and round, dealing with the same problems that our ancestors had to deal with.

What I see here is part of the human condition. Pitfalls that "most" people are doomed to repeat. People are born with similar ways of thinking. I would propose that intuition is most always wrong. This is one reason we must educate people. Unfortunately, Memories and Communication are not precise. And I realize that all job fields require some sort of education or training.

There exist Complex ideas, technologies, material things (eg. biology): that are not comprehensible by one single person at a time. This is why we have groups of people that make products and not individuals.

Also people age, lose their usefulness. If only you could educate people who would increase their intelligence, and never die.

We live in a world of conclusions based on facts. A conclusion can be wrong, a fact cannot. News media, blogs, conversation are an exchange of conclusions. We can't communicate in just facts because we can't work with that much data at a time.

If only, one could link to another: a computer or another brain and be able to access knowledge and its accuracy. Is this possible, I don't know.

There are many problems worth fixing (but probably won't any time soon):
a phonetic english alphabet with a different letter for each unique sound,
Human Language to AI command compiler,
optimize human mental process (engineer the human mind),
build biospheres in inhospitable regions of the Earth,
Fast internet that is cheap (100Mb/s (and I mean Megabit)) -> HD remote controlled robots,
Tactile feedback for TV just like we have visual and sound,
Engineer ways of rejuvenating/regeneration of humans so we can control our lifespan,
Creating or finding what makes humans "sentient" or "have a soul" or "conscious" or "self-aware"
-> Preserve this "consciousness" without a body for long trips of space flight
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That's the whole point though - science so far can't give much useful advice on what to eat, the topic is just too complex.

Science can give hedged explanations of what's been observed in relation to a particular nutrient, but that's a far shot from dietary advice.

What seems to end up happening is "we've observed a correlation between saturated fat consumption and heart disease" makes it out of the science world and gets turned into "avoid saturated fat at all costs" (and buy our replacement products). Then years later we realize it's a lot more complicated than that.
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I think you're making a lot of big assumptions. First, the combination of indefinite lifespan, indefinite fertility, and high reproduction rates (which is necessary for your scenario) would cause rapid overpopulation. You have to give up at least one of those.

Second, there's no necessary reason fecundity should be related to risk aversity.
Nice, very similar to what I have in mind. Thanks for the link!
I started working on something somewhat similar to mustache for haskell a while back, though its still in the early alpha stage of development. http://github.com/jamessanders/rstemplate
Accent seems to be way more important than vocabulary or grammar for social situations. It's easier to "fix" an imperfect sentence construction in your head and infer missing meanings from gestures and pictures than it is to decipher an extremely thick accent.
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I don't let her out of her own room before I'm done. Yes, she has her own room...
you have to downgrade from induction to deduction. given the environment humans evolved in and what we know about primate digestive systems, what is unlikely to do me harm?
answer: fruit, nuts, eggs. what is the biggest thing we do that monkeys don't? eat tons of processed grains.

simple answer: decrease processed carb intake, replace with fruit (primate diets are often 50% fruit). since eating no grains isn't an option, eat the ones considered healthier: corn, beans, brown rice.
And they're not the only ones:

https://openqabal.dev.java.net/

(disclaimer: OpenQabal is a project I started).

I'm pretty sure there are a few other projects out there as well, doing more or less the same thing(s). If everybody working on one of these projects could get in sync, and agree to common protocols and formats, so that they could all interoperate, it would make it that much more likely for the federated / decentralized approach to catch on. I'm not sure it'll happen though. Nobody seems to really be talking about it (yet).
Here's my explanation from a while back, if it's any help:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202002
That's not a regular Google search page - possibly a custom search engine, but regular Google looks very different.
English is what happens when Norman soldiers pick up Saxon girls.

[source unknown].
I am turned off by all paywalls. So if I click a link and have to pay to see what your app does, it degrades my experience.
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Hope that people find this useful/interesting - any improvements or comments, let me know!
I want to say cheesey things like "The only thing certain is uncertainty" and talk about the pangs of Hamlet, but instead I'll offer this bit of advice from Colin Powell I recall from previous HN threads:

Part I:"Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands
for the probability of success and the numbers indicate
the percentage of information acquired."

Part II:"Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut."

From lesson #15 in this presentation about Colin Powell on Leadership (http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadersh...)
Similar to SERIES in Common Lisp: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node347.html#S...

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Thanks! Can view it with VLC on OS X now.
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I too was paying peanuts for V-Mo, then I got a girlfriend and had to move to their unlimited-text plan because I started sending over 100 texts a day for the first week or so. Still only $20 a month. If I added $5 more I could get the unlimited data plan too, but their phones aren't interesting enough for that, or weren't as of a few months ago. I see that they're offering a Blackberry now, though. Maybe I'll think about an upgrade when the Android phones start appearing.
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There is a meta-ticket tracking just that - http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4068