skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, this is a followup to a post that explains that well towards the end: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin... hth.
The study was interesting, yet by the author's own words incomplete with only something like 24 participants. Even then, I wasn't clear if each of the 24 read three different stories, one per device, or how the breakdown went.

Also, a sensationalist headline to attract hits, the comparison was among paper, the Kindle and the iPad. Why not "Reading on paper is faster than reading on iPad or Kindle"?

Finally, while the whole study was pretty pointless, reading on the iPad was slightly better than reading on the Kindle but within the margin or error.
...And there's the IDF's terrifying customized Caterpillar:

http://sites.google.com/site/mathknight6/home/idf-d9
Based on my personal experience in the military, I'd have to disagree with this. Perhaps obese people are just plain hungrier and that drives them to eat faster? But eating faster in itself does not lead to obesity.
>I'll also admit that the existence of Santa Claus, who lives at the North Pole in some kind of cloaked fortress and has some kind of time-warp technology that allows him to deliver toys to boys and girls world wide in one night is possible.

Except you don't.

Why lie so blatantly. If you're trying to establish the truth then you wouldn't do this. This doesn't prove that you always lie to convince other people of your position regardless of it's truth but it does lead us in that direction.
Sorry, back now!
My understanding is that sites like DailyCandy, etc. do well by having very good open/CTRs for their emails and known/attractive demographics, and can therefore charge quite a bit to place ads. (They don't list ad unit prices, but some more info: http://www.dailycandy.com/mediakit/)
A basic academic report format you can use
Academic report is a common assignment format students need to adopt for degree level studies. An academic report format is ideal when a topic is being deeply analyzed and findings are presented along with evaluations, results and recommendations. These papers are formatted with specific sections and pagination and layout requirements and acquiring a proper knowledge of this format is a must for students.
This is just blogspam which adds no content to the linked article:

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5262

while subtracting sense and grammar.
OK then: Your reasoning is fallacious. You've equated coping copyrighted works with witholding changes to a GPL program based on the observation that they're both released under a set of conditions.

The point is you haven't taken in to account the relative validity of the conditions. You can't equate them simply because they are "conditions".

The conditions of the GPL are (put very simply) "you must share". The conditions of JB's work are (put very simply) "you must not share".

You don't get to compare instances of infringing each of those rules unless you can demonstrate that a requirement to share has equivalent ethical validity to a requirement not to share.

If you're going to say "If you do X don't be pissed if I do Y" then the onus is on you to show that X and Y are equivalent.
Utility based content is also a big one. They send content that is useful/provides new insight.
The author is intentionally not trying to earn money. As far as he's seeing it, he's fully expecting to lose the $120k.
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I agree with your stance, but I disagree that religions don't encourage adherents to understand the world. As I said in the GP, I think the way they encourage adherents to understand the world is mistaken, but it still exists!
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This is great. Also, for a more general overview of the theory check out the book Permission Marketing. It's largely about what gives large email lists their value, how to grow that value, etc.
I don't understand the popularity of social media companies. It is a very crowded space and its difficult to make money. I know this from a failed startup that had an ad based revenue model. You have have tons of users and with social media that is somewhat of a catch-22.

What is/was your plan to monetize your company? I don't have much advice I could offer this late in the game. My advice for others is to make a product/service and start charging from day 1. If you can get customers to give you money, then you know you have a product that people want.
She's not British is she? She's definitely not Irish or Scottish, her RP seems off to me ... is she American? She [purposefully it seems] doesn't say in her CVs.
If you have $120K to lose that's one thing. But most students don't have that kind of dough lying around and to borrow it in order to throw it away is inviting trouble. That's a $400 to $700 millstone you're tying around your neck with little to nothing in return and no easy way in to the workforce because everybody else was stupid enough to blow their money on their education instead.
True, but we've at least found the "on" switch for fusion. Do we have such a switch for this? If not, it's all potential energy with nowhere to go.
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I implemented cdr just to respect a Lisp tradition. Lisphp's Lisphp_List type isn't a linked list but a subtype of ArrayObject, which supports random access. So instead of doing:

(car (cdr (cdr (cdr list))))

you should just do:

(at list 3)
People attempting to do a Welsh accent often make a stereotypical Indian accent.
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I agree with this. I'm particularly exposed to seeing how founders/CEO's differ within YC and at these mixer/networking events - the generic "location based recommendation something" ideas are talked about at the latter rather than the former.
Find work. Quickly.

See if you can extend your runway that way and if not fold.
He had already founded and exited a successful business.
Honestly, you're better off outsourcing or building the website.

Software isn't just code, it's a product. Apple has found a way to use their standardized nature to force people to conform to their product with their user interfaces, but with desktop software, that's not the case. The feeling that a software product gives off has to be uniform in all aspects of its sale and usage, or you'll lose potential customers. Take, for example, Panic software (http://www.panic.com/). Their web site, ordering interface, and applications themselves all give off an aura of clean professionalism. This unification isn't something you can get with an App Store-like distribution model.

That having been said, I know Bodega (http://appbodega.com/) is trying to build an App Store for Apple desktops.
"I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice."

This really speaks to me. For a long time it was just a really obvious overrepeated cliche to me. Then recently I've been going through a rough patch with my startup, and hearing/reading it from other people has become critical to my motivation to keep going forward.

With stability, money in the bank, and a dream, it was easy to say "I'll be happy even if i try and fail, but i don't want to live with not trying; wondering will eat me up."

All of the sudden, trying and failing, it became really hard to see how failure was a better path. Hearing other people say it reminds me of why I wanted to take the risk.
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If you've got the right kind of people reading your list, you can charge MUCH higher rates for ads than you could ever get away with on the web.
yeah the stability of eBay integrity and trust was really riding on this case... although defiantly agree £5k fine is ALOT but then again, how would you find an appropriate amount?
What's your big idea?
Same story submitted 2 days ago from a different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483598

20 comments there.
Yes, that's what I thought, and I don't see a real way around it.

The bigger problem is in code that consumes the lists item by item, every time an extra copy of the remainder of the list will be made, there it is much harder to work around this.

Very neat code by the way, thanks a ton for making this.

I'll be playing around with it for a bit, I've written a chunk of code for a small site a while ago in a 'functional' PHP style (as in, no assignments except at the highest level), I'll see if I can convert that project to your lisp dialect and get it to work.
+1 for rail, particularly if the hub is Paris.
I sit at a Dojo regularly and occasionally do introductions. We don't teach counting, but do teach following the breath at the nostrils and settling the mind in the hands, as things to come back to once the mind has wandered. There is some technical stuff about posture to learn but basically you just turn up and sit. If they do it differently somewhere else that's cool too, lineages vary.
At some point Dawkins has to rationalize (or shall I say 'irrationalize', for a man so concerned with logic) away the consequences of his diehard belief in an evolutionary process explaining our existence...

So to Dawkins, being the pawn of a purposeless, intelligence-devoid, purely natural process -- slowing marching his way to death, only to be forgotten within a few centuries -- probably doesn't sit well with him.

For most people, they choose to ignore the reality that Evolution simply lays down the fact that one's existence is both purposeless and meaningless. Well, one does have a purpose - replicating their species.

Of course, the optimistic delusion starts when people start bullshitting about "doing good for humanity" and "living for the moment" and all sorts of other drivel that really just serves to help them ignore the bigger uncomfortable reality of how incredibly useless and meaningless they are on the timeline of the infinite.
Well, he did it multiple times, and on big-ticket items (two Mercedes minivans). Five thousand quid doesn't sound inappropriately high.
I don't believe in God because there is enough evidence in the world to suggest that the universe is relational. In a relational universe, everything that exists does so within the boundaries and parameters of that universe -- not outside of it. We have a sufficient understanding of the universe to understand that a being so described as "God" doesn't exist. Such a being would have to exist outside of that universe which is beyond existence and therefore cannot be said to "exist" by any definition of existence.

People are afraid that they might have it wrong, so they allow themselves to assert that since they cannot disprove the existence of "God" or some other inexplicable thing, then it could exist (or as some will further conclude, does exist). This little bit of fallacious logic can allow one to conclude that anything could be possible. It's rooted in the fear of uncertainty.

Still others will believe in an ephemeral "God" which they attribute to the unquanitifiable or undetermined aspects of the universe. Many scientists who also claim to be religious hold this view of the unverse (as far as I know). They will find "God" in their pursuit of the prime numbers, unexplained quantum phenomena, or some other mysterious corner of existence. However, I also find this view fallacious as the relational model of the universe will keep these "believers" continously finding new "Gods" all the time. We will figure out the prime numbers eventually, and there are more and more quantum phenomena explained by very solid theories.

It's like people with ghost stories. I know lots of people with stories about their encounters with ghosts. I've never seen one. I've looked and never seen one. Every story about ghosts usually involve a single person and rarely have witnesses. Why is that? If ghosts exist and are part of the natural order of the universe, why haven't I seen one? Why aren't they as normal as birds, trees, and air?

Any charlatan will generally be able to fill in the blanks here. Ghosts only make themselves known. I can't see them because I don't believe. Without any evidence for the existence their nature cannot be known so a person could attribute any sort of story about the nature of ghosts. So really the only real attribute about ghosts is that they make for useful literary devices.

Similarily, if "God" is a natural part of the universe (and indeed created the whole thing) why are any of us debating whether "God" exists at all? It's precisely because "God" doesn't exist that we can debate endlessly about the nature of "God" and it's existence. Our fear and uncertainty will permit us to assert the possiblity of "God"'s existence.

I have no such fear.

What I do fear is the culmination of such uncertainty and fear organizing into legally-recognized institutions that brow-beat the public into tolerating their beliefs.
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Google news in terminal
After h3manth.com/content/upload-picasa-command-line-using-googlecl and h3manth.com/content/google-sunrise-sunset-terminal in past ten days, i was gaming on some substantial data gathering code. Python and Google indeed blend very well together, this time i tried a tiny class that gives the top results from Google news from each category.

Google follows a unique URI pattern in all of its services, this time there news service gather my attention from my terminal.
The idea was pretty simple to get the top news in the terminal with shorten URL's,i have made use of python feedparser and is.gd api to achieve this task.
Many might argue that they will just read them in there best feed readers or just the browser, but yes most of the command line junkies would love to have everything in there terminal, like even a music player for that fact!
>It's almost as irritating as pronouncing 'three' as 'free' which at least has the merit of being easier to say

Free vs Three has been a constant battle for me. I found these extremely difficult to differentiate aurally and three very hard to make orally. This was a constant source of me being corrected throughout school.

British people can certainly tell the difference and I've learnt it well enough to make the difference in pronunciation and to hear it enough to teach it to my son and correct him - he doesn't appear to have my problem with it (he's in infant school).

Chav English and other dialects ignore the difference.
No - code is just a small part of this business. That would be like saying, "can I outsource everything but accounting?"

OK, not exactly like that, but not far from it.
> I think it's a little harsh to say that I "completely missed the point" of this article. I get it -- Apple products are very polished and carefully designed and the Android lacks that polish but is feature rich. Is that an accurate description, or did I completely miss something else?

What you are missing is that what you are calling "polish" is 90% of the quality of a product to a consumer.

It's not about gradients or drop shadows. It's about saying no in the development process, and making sure everything just works.

To give a counter-example of polish, here is a problem I had on my work machine. It was recently upgraded to Fedora Core 11, a seemingly sensible choice. When I first logged in, the volume control mumbled something about having been deleted. I had a look for another one, only to discover that there is no simple volume control. For some development reason, which I don't give a shit about, someone has removed the existing volume control, and some other subsystem is meant to provide one, but they haven't gotten around to it yet.

That is why Linux on the desktop is dead, and as long as Linux is developed in the bazaar, it will always be dead (but great for geeks!)
I feel obligated to respond since you put so much time into your response. However, I'm not going to follow this thread further so I'll resist the urge to get in the last word.

I think our debate can be summed up as follows:

I believe that government has a role in fixing/preventing systemic problems, preventing private entities from engaging in harmful social behavior when the market is inadequate to do so, and performing socially important functions that the market does not incentivize. I certainly don't think the government should tackle every conceivable problem - we have a democracy to decide. In practice, I think the costs of the fix is high enough in many cases that it is preferable to live with the problem. (However, this is a practical observation rather than a determination based on principle.)

I think you would say that the government has no authority to meddle in those issues and must rely on coercion to do so, always gets things wrong when it does, the purported benefits of regulation can be achieved by voluntary agreements between private entities, and that "important functions that the market does not incentivize" is an inherent contradiction.
On the dutch site marktplaats (a subsidiary of ebay, they bought it because it was too well entrenched) nonsense bids are pretty much the norm, it's fairly rare to get a significant bid on something and to see the buyer follow through.
Hi, I think that you are completely right. Schema evolution and easy partition/sharding are broken on current open-source RDBMS systems. Relational data has strong mathematical guarantees as well as useful normalization properties for ensuring consistency.

I have a question about what good solution you have to solve these problems. Are you suggesting that Oracle does this well as a commercial solution? Is anybody at all working on a next-generation RDBMS that makes schema migration truly easy?

For the sharding/partitioning question, is it even possible to make a relational data scheme that stays available and consistent in the case of network partition?
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I disagree, RDF is gaining ground and is getting more popular. In the real world, schema changes are a fact of life and RDF handles it well. RDF also solves the relationship quandary you mention and even allows database (stores) to be distributed and disparate.
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The language of individual HTML tags is certainly regular, and trivially easy. However, the language of "matched HTML tags with junk between them" is NOT regular.

Anything that requires balanced matching is NOT parseable with standard Regular Expressions, and by not parseable I mean that you will literally have an infinite amount of bugs. Shoot me an email and I can show you the math.

Even with Perl's whiz-bang recursive not-really-regexes-regexes, it's strongly not recommended to tackle balanced matching problems like HTML or XML. It might be theoretically possible (I haven't actually checked), but your brain will leak from your ears and you probably won't get it right, no matter how smart you are.
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I wonder if this is better suited as a Facebook or twitter "game", at least for a start. For example, some friends dragged me into playing the name game on facebook and although I hardly check Facebook, that thing made me go back quite a lot. Once you get a good base of users you could get them to an independent site which is more usable and focussed.
Yes I forgot. Applied there too ;-)

How about Pivotal Labs? There is nothing on HN about them.
Most graduation speeches are fairly formulaic; regurgitations of the same few bits of inspirational wisdom that we all already know (but can occasionally afford to be reminded of, in the appropriate setting). Even the speeches which acknowledge and play with the formula are still pretty formulaic.

The Steve Jobs version of the speech wasn't really any better than the Jeff Bezos version, and neither of those is any better than the version given by some guy you've never heard of at some fifth-rate school in the middle of nowhere.
In more traditional lists, the main data structure over which car and cdr munched was a linked list. car and cdr were just accessors for the two fields (usually used as a data container and a 'next' pointer).
An App Store for Mac desktops? That sounds very risky. If Apple release their own built in App Store then your business is gone.
Well done jacquesm! It's only been what since you first looked at Lisp? 2 months? Already you know your way around typical primitive implementations.

Respect!
But they're talking about applications like batteries. I don't think you want an explosion going off in your pants. Either kind.

Here's the news release from their campus site, detailing some of the supposed applications:

http://www.wsunews.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Det...
I visited the rackspace cloud pricing page
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers...

'the cloud' is still pretty darn pricey. Yes, I get you can 'scale up' (exactly how means different things to different people) but you're somewhat locked in to their ecosystem (at least, to take advantage of the features of the particular cloud in question.

For my needs I've got a server up paying < $100 month for dedicated bandwidth, 100 mbit connection, 300 gig of disk space, multiple IPs, quad 2.8ghz and 4 gigs of RAM.

The close equivalent on Rackspace is $286, and still only nets me half the disk space. Yes, there's a few niceties you get with 'cloud' providers, but for $200+ per month difference, I'm not sure I need them.
For the record, all parties have declined this is happening. A nice rumor, nothing more.
I don't see a problem there. He still has to pay the ebay fees and everything, so he will loose anyway.

And he won't bid on the item himself if he thinks it's an adaquate price.
The real problem with Grove's suggestions is that he ignores the issues which led to this economic downturn in the first place: rampant avarice, ignorance and corruption. There can be no meaningful improvement to US fortunes until those issues are substantially corrected.
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From a quick look, you managed to get one thing right, even though it baffles even respected language implementers: a proper stack trace on error. Most people who write a HLL interpreter in another HLL tend to cheat and implement a half-baked source to source translator.

[Edit:

Question: Why does it have T, NIL, #T and #F? what roles do these symbols play in the language; which ones are canonical truth values, which ones signify list termination, and which ones signify the empty value? This is the perennial Lisp question.]
Thai?
>He's more likely referring to every possible human, which for instance would include every possible other sperm that could have fertilized your egg

The one that fertilised it is the only one that could have fertilised it. Perhaps if you're into realist versions Copenhagen interpretation then you can argue that in a largely parallel universe that another sperm may have suited the conditions ...
I've been studying it so I can go and write a little lisp interpreter in C just to make sure I really 'got' it.

For me that's the 'benchmark' of understanding a language, to be able to re-implement it.

edit: by the way, it's been more than two months, but there have been a lot of things done in that time that have nothing to do with programming.