skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a useful interactive feature from the article that lets you look at various countries' debt over time and by type -- financial, government, household, etc.): http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/06/indebtedne...

Particularly interesting to me is the variation in debt mix amongst countries (click on the headers at the top of the image) and the changes over time (click on the countries on the map).
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It's very helpful to know what's going on behind the scenes of that pretty little database abstraction, though.
Personally, I have no idea what they cost but I'm interested, for a family member.

So how much is it? Reference?

(We do have a state health system here, but a doctor must send people for testing. It is generally easier to work and pay yourself, despite paying high taxes for other's use of the state health system.)
Its really awesome to see that wikileaks provides this data in CSV, SQL, and KML - any thoughts on what information you can farm out of this?
Read Fischer & Ury's Getting to Yes if you have time. Great little book on negotiating. One of their main pieces of advice is, before entering any negotiation, work out your BATNA - Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement.

A BATNA is not the lowest price you're willing to accept in a negotiation, but rather what you would do if the negotiation never occurred in the first place. Bootstrap your product, try to gain traction, profit? Raise angel/VC money, work towards an exit strategy? Apply to YC?

Once you have that figured out, you can enter into a negotiation with a much better idea of the value of your product to you. If there is overlap with that and what the other company is willing to offer for it, then you can make a win/win deal.

It also helps to have some idea of the value of your product to the other company, as you do.

Good luck, and congrats.
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first response, why is the main character from "Up in the Air" writing blog posts.

second response, Techcrunch has become the Fox News of technology blogs.
This is the best video series I've seen on the subject. The guy even wrote a book on exits.

http://www.angelblog.net/Selling_a_Business_Guide.html

Hope this helps.
Best of luck!
I've sought out healthier substitutes so that I can 'bait-and-switch' my cravings.

My best switches:
- PBJ with sliced strawberries instead of jelly and on wheat bread (I actually like it better this way)
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Debian, interestingly, has recently had a push exactly in the opposite direction, mainly for the "fixing bugs once fixes them everywhere" reason. Over the years a lot of packages have for various reasons statically linked in private copies of a library (sometimes on purpose, sometimes just because upstream did so), which causes the Debian security team no end of headaches, because they have to track down all of these and fix them if there's a security-relevant bug. Since Debian Stable tries not to push too many updates unless absolutely necessary, it also screws things up there, because instead of updating one package for one library's bug, they have to update all N packages that made private copies of the library, so sysadmins expecting rare, infrequent security fixes instead get presented with a big pile of packages that want to be updated.
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Hear, hear. In fact, if you're serious about this, drop me a line.
It's interesting to see how PostgresSQL didn't get nowhere near the popularity of MySQL. I think a few major things contributed to this:

1) MySQL focused on performance first while PostgresSQL positioned themselves as "feature-complete."

Of course, that was years ago and in the meantime they became comparable in both aspects. MySQL+InnoDB is ACID compliant and Postgres matches the InnoDB performance.

Sure, Postgres might still have the upper hand in the variety of features but MySQL has MyISAM. If you don't need transactions you can get a significant performance boost over Postgres. Speed IS a feature and one could argue it's more important to many than all the nice extra things Postgres has.

2) MySQL was compatible with mSQL so they got a pretty good user base right from the start. mSQL later became obsolete.

3) Inertia. Even if Postgres would be net superior to MySQL (think feature complete but faster than MyISAM) it would still take a lot of time to catch up, if ever. There are tons of tools already developed for MySQL and a huge knowledge base around it. Just like C++, Windows, or any other big technology, there's a lot of inertia to it.
Exactly - I couldn't have said it better myself.

Given that safety costs, it is usually appropriate that government regulates the minimum acceptable standard.

Beyond that, the market decides (see some active safety features in cars etc)
Can your product make money on its own, or only in conjunction with the company's complementary one?
This is a common misconception about GPL, but it is false.

To oversimplify Section 3 of the GPLv2: if you release a GPL licensed program then you have to comply by making source code available or showing where source is available, regardless of whether or not you have modified it.

I can assure you that Linux BSPs for most of the underlying systems included in the list are not currently available anywhere (that's what the "source available" column in the table is intending to show.) Although this is actually unrelated to the issue of whether or not the company themselves are violating GPL.

You're correct that (as the article says) quite a lot of functionality is spun off into standalone kernel modules (not necessarily GPL) and the Android layer, but this doesn't excuse the overall GPL violation.
NPR did a segment on how the price of MRIs varies to a crazy extent, because no one knows what they ought to cost:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1203992...

They followed it up with some comparisons to Japan:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455...
Maybe the postgres supporters can fill this in about Postgres reliability:

http://www.quora.com/How-reliable-is-Postgres-replication

that's one of the biggest issues scaring people away from Postgres.
What it means to be "faster"? Is it having a higher I/O throughput? Or, is it having a lower latency on the 95th or 98th percentile?

Also, the slides give little information about scalability of the two models. From what I know, the performance of non-blocking I/O should degrades more gracefully in presence of high concurrency. I would have liked to see some numbers about that.
Downvoted? I honestly don't understand - what was jules' observation supposed to mean? I wasn't being snarky - I was trying to make sense of it!
I am also an adult, I also should be able to decide what I want to do with the data. However, when I send out my DNA and receive that data, I would hope that the DNA information should adhere to a scientific and privacy standard respectively.

Of course, one could say that the free market could work this all out and everything will be just fine... On that note, please see October 2008 for reference.
Thanks for the additional detail regarding the cause of the crash. I've added the correction to the post.
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Rhino can be used to run JS server-side atop the JVM, although maybe by this point they've switched to V8.

I still find it hard to believe they built the whole thing in JS. If it really is so, well... that's actually really, really cool.
It's interesting -- could save me a lot of time as an employer.

As an employee -- it could be a nightmare. Last time I was looking for work (2005) I found it incredibly obnoxious that every stupid application required a huge application online with some ancient webapp. The idea that each application could end up having me waste time on a video recording that may never be viewed seems potentially incredibly frustrating to applicants. Perhaps you could have employers reuse questions, so an applicant could record once and use it again and again.

Also, you may find it hard to get traction in the US since we are very sensitive to potential biases during the hiring process. Some employers may find this opens them up to more racial discrimination lawsuits since hiring managers may request fewer interviews with minority or women candidates after seeing their videos.
Database abstraction isn't, or at least isn't practical.

Small projects don't need an interchangeable database. Bigger projects won't let you get away without making assumptions about the database. Nothing but the basics work the same between SQLite and ORACLE.
> If you bring that profile to a doctor, they will pretty much have to disregard it without a second thought (see FDA argument above).

I've heard some of this from friends who are doctors, mostly because in their view genetically-customized medicine is still a very new area, and there aren't any particularly great rules of thumb yet. If you had infinite time to spend on one patient, there's a possibility you could research the current literature, find something that correlates to something on a printout they brought you, and if you're lucky and it's the right kind of condition, have somewhat more information on which to make a good treatment decision. But that's doing original research, and pretty speculative research at that, and as a full-time doctor you can't also be doing full-time research developing new treatments. More to the point, the vast majority of medicine isn't really medical-TV-show-style complex sleuthing cases that need every clue possible. There are way bigger sources of error than genetic variation, like overworked doctors totally missing tell-tale symptoms, or patients not finishing courses of antibiotics, that are much lower-hanging fruit if you wanted to look for ways to improve health-care.

It hasn't gotten common enough to be a problem yet, but one of my friends in particular is very worried that the main effect will be to create an even bigger new class of people who've self-diagnosed incorrectly and refuse to be corrected or follow treatment suggestions from their doctor, like the current crop of people who will go doctor-to-doctor until someone gives them an antibiotic that they're convinced they need.
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I think this can be extended to any interviewee who starts redesigning your stack before they're even hired can be rejected.
No it's not. It is only part of prop 13, which is about property taxes primarily.

It's the bad part, however.
Agreed. It's like saying they should have written Quora using C# because there are more developers for it instead of a "fringe" language like Python.
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What could 'it' refer to but Proposition 13 (1978)?
This idea scares me a bit. Mostly for the rare awful occasions when people either rely on buggy behaviour, or patch around it on the caller side in some unexpected way.

I can see it making perfect sense for security updates, but if you have it then you have it for all library updates - security or not.
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Yeah, though I think it's mitigated a little bit with a managed-as-a-whole system like Debian, at least if there's communication. Sometimes things break, but sometimes things do actually work, and the maintainers will talk to each other to coordinate updates, inform each other when a change is likely to break other things, etc.
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Hum, to correct some points: 1) the Guardian at least says no fee was involved:

"Assange allowed the Guardian to examine the logs at our request. No fee was involved and Wikileaks was not involved in the preparation of the Guardian's articles."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-...

2) I think also it's fairly clear the auction model was something they considered, tried and rejected (the auction failed), and 3) you didn't mention that the Wau Holland Foundation /will/ be producing a report as required by law.

And finally, concerning the extra documents not released, WL said it would only /delay/ the release, not block them altogether:

"We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits."

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/
I definitely treated my 23andme profile as a piece of entertainment, and don't think people should take it too seriously. I found someone who may be a distant cousin, and a few interesting traits, so I'd consider it a slightly more informed (and similarly priced) palm reading.

I'm really glad I approached it like that, because I was one of the people who were in the DNA mixup. They told me I was a Tay-Sachs[1] carrier, which has a potentially vital impact on my relationship decisions (and was also a bit concerning given that neither of my parents are carriers). I'm really glad they caught and fixed it, and that I didn't take it seriously enough to lose sleep over the results.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%E2%80%93Sachs_disease
> Transactions can't roll back schema changes

That's a feature of postgres rather than a limitation of mysql however. As far as I know the SQL Standard doesn't ask for transactional DDL, Oracle has pretty much no support for transactional DDL (in 10g anyway, each DDL statement is executed in its own transaction and any pending transaction is COMMITted before a DDL), I have no idea about SQL Server.
Or maybe the world is getting smarter and seeing actual problems (or non-solutions) for what they are?
Certainly Gruber gets a lot of flak here for his love of Apple (the products and the company) so it may seem shocking, though it is not, to see him write something like:

"It was a grand and noble idea to create an English-like programming language, one that would seem approachable and unintimidating to the common user. But in this regard, AppleScript has proven to be a miserable and utter failure."
Ah, in that case, I should add a third possibility: in any large-enough user population (where the users could theoretically switch to an alternative—not like, say, an enterprise Lotus Notes installation) there will form a small, yet vocal, counterculture that dislikes every change you make to the software, no matter how small.

They do this not because it affects their productivity negatively (they have even less of an idea about their individual productivity than you do), but rather because it is a hit to their familiarity, and an easy rallying point to demonstrate their "consumer identity" to others. Facebook has gotten the most unlucky with this kind of problem (I think because Facebook's core 15-25 demographic are the most likely group to protest, riot, and generally shout at things), but Google has it nearly as bad, being the "front page" of the Internet to many.
Well, anyone can still write crap code with Django, it doesn't require an enterprise C# language to produce crap. Django templates still have logic that needs to be tested & debugged so the template filter functions don't alleviate all the pain either. Plus, the concept of template filter functions is available in pretty much all web frameworks out there, but it's more painful to use if the templating language forces one to write a filter function every time you need to wield the python language.
Wow, this brought back a ton of nostalgia for my first computer.
Moore's law is about transistor count, not about speed. The increasing number of cores on a single die is predicted by Moore's law.
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I had thought of doing something in this space and when I researched it, it looked like, at least in the US, no one used video interviews even though a few companies have implemented it.

I hope you can overcome whatever failed the previous guys. Best of luck and keep us appraised of what happens from here on in.
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This is probably the best way to learn to program:

http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Comput...

If you're too poor to pay for it this book is available free online:

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

This is probably the best place to get started with HTML and CSS:

http://htmldog.com/

Once you know regular CSS, if you're going to be designing your own sites, you should start using this (little known secret weapon):

http://compass-style.org/

I'd say once you understand all that stuff, learn Django

http://www.djangoproject.com/

and go ahead and build your first web application. You won't know Javascript yet, which will seriously limit the slickness of your interface, but that's alright for your first effort. These guys supposedly make deployment really easy:

http://www.webfaction.com/

Here's the best Javascript stuff I know:

http://yuiblog.com/crockford/ (download with netvideohunter firefox extension and watch sped-up with vlc, [ and ] keys control speed. I wish I'd taken notes.)

http://jquery.com/

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

If you've got capital you can hire other people to do design:

http://99designs.com/

http://www.designcontest.net/

http://www.designcrowd.com/

There are a lot of services on the internet that will convert PSD (photoshop) documents that 99designs guys make in to xhtml and css for a few hundred dollars. So you don't have to go deep in to design if you don't want to.

I wish I'd installed Ubuntu and learned to use the command line earlier; otherwise I wouldn't have gotten frustrated when trying to install software. I'd say once you've got Ubuntu running, read everything under Linux on this page:

http://code.google.com/edu/tools101/index.html

Normally you want to be learning things on a just-in-time-basis, so you're learning something in order to apply it to some project. But system administration isn't like that because you don't know what you need to know.

As for regrets: I think I would have learned a lot faster if I'd given myself designated study hours. Probably half an hour a day to start, with gradual increase. Also, I shouldn't have been so hesitant to register for accounts and ask questions on forums, IRC channels, etc.

Paul Graham has more tips: http://paulgraham.com/pfaq.html
Yeah, your defiantly going to need a lot of resources handy to work off-line and even then you probably hit something that you need to lookup online.

I can see that given the right task though it would be beneficial, the slightly slower working pace by lack of resources could be made up by the concentration you get.

It works for me studying for exams when I can have all the course content in front of me, even then though I end up finding something interesting that I want to look up in lecture notes or something that makes no sense so I need to search for a better explanation online.
The problem is that, though operations flow better, it's a good way to hide bugs until you've completely lost its context, and then finding out its source is a pain unless you have a backtracking debugger.

An option type, especially one which allows you to lift operations into it (as Haskell's does) is a much better solution as it gives the programmer the choice of behavior: does he not care and just want to keep his option, or does he want to know and unwrap the value within the container?

Objective-C allows half of this, but it's generally the wrong half.

Most other statically typed languages allow neither solution and are therefore broken.
I think having a "launch" at the right time might have had some impact also. MySQL launched in 1995, right around the time that the idea of generating hypertext dynamically was taking off, so a bunch of web stuff was looking for a lightweight, fast DB without necessarily a lot of features. Postgres had been around since the 1980s as a research project, and in 1994 was publicly released as an open-source project and added SQL support (rather than its own query language), but it was sort of off the internet's radar as a research project mostly known in academia. The official launch of the rebranded PostgreSQL was in 1997, but that might've been a bit late already, since 1995-1997 were a fairly crucial two years for the LAMP stack's birth.
There are a number of companies that provide support for PostgreSQL. Enterprise DB is probably the most prominent of them. Kind of funny that they didn't have a good technical reason not to use PostgreSQL, just that the community was smaller.

Postgres 9, with streaming replication and easy to setup bullet proof read only slave replication will probably move momentum in the direction of PostgreSQL. The replication was always easier to setup on MySQL, which gave it an advantage.
I would find it much easier to follow the article if the author used traditional mathematical notation instead of Clojure. Which do you prefer?

(* t (/ 1000 w))

or (perhaps typeset properly)

t * 1000 / w
Hmm. Probably, but there are people out there who are qualified to know how to scale better than you, presumably.

On the other hand, people who are religious about technology choices (faith rather than logic) tend to be bad matches. People who don't revisit their decisions don't make great engineers. I don't want choices made because of a previous lifestyle decision.
You're correct, the difference is multiplying by gross revenue or by EBITDA. In Accounting firms, for example, it is common to have a multiple (often about 0.9) of Revenue, which is often 3-5 times EBITDA. A property management rent roll is another example where revenue is used, often 2.7 - 3.2 times depending on the market.

Most companies, however, are sold on EBITDA multiples. Unless the new business can rapidly be plugged into existing processes (like in accounting and property management), then the buyer wants to have a better idea of profit margins. EDITDA will give them that.
Exactly.. i got through the first few equations and then stopped reading.
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