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Back in the 80's, people who wanted computers were geeks. Now everybody an his dog uses a computer; geeks are a tiny part of the whole. I suppose that geeks who want to know how things work, well, just learn it one way or another. the remaining 90% of the population won't ever know shit on how a computer works, because they're absolutely not interested in this matter.
if what he is looking for is a higher than C++/Java level language, there are plenty of higher level languages that fit the bill and are compiled. Haskell and OCaml come to mind.
The main nugget I got from this article is that an operator was changed after that blog was written. It's telling in how much of a state of flux perl6 still is
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Well he would say that, being the leader in a democratic system and all.
David's generally not like this at all, which is why it had so much power when he delivered it to the crowd.
"Notice that the person doing this illegal business is the only one benefiting from it."

The landlord/property owner is still paying property taxes, and their utility bills.

Also, as a previous commenter mentioned (jim_h)...

"A tourist who stays at a hotel ($100/night) might only have budgeted $50/day to spend outside of hotel costs."

"A cheap tourist could budget $100/day, stay at a temp place and still get more out of NYC than someone who budgeted $150/day and stayed at a hotel."

But, most importantly, mrtron says...

"I would agree - the money spent on hotels probably doesn't stay as local as money spent on food and entertainment."

Also, you mentioned "what is supposed to be a residential area" - but most of NYC seems to be mixed-use zoning, where you have a commercial entity attached to a multi-family residence, or even have commercial entities at the base of the building.
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> Python's strength is the focus on "there is only one way
> to do it", which lets most people be able to grok most of
> your code.

Unfortunately this is not my way of doing it, and that's why I'll always prefer Perl to Python.
On the flip side, if these rooms get rented out it becomes more affordable to those of us that actually live here. There's still hostels for those who want to go the cheap route and meet plenty of foreign travelers.
Ask HN: how do I find the word-count of novels?
I'm going to write a book (with a friend). But I don't know how many words to write. I know the type of book we want to write: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Died_with_a_Felafel_in_His_Hand. But I don't know how many words these types of novels are. 10,000 words? 20,000? 40,000? Is there a web-app that returns the word count? Amazon? Google Books?
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Should work now, I updated it 1.5 - 4.0b3pre, I haven't tested it yet though, as I have 3.5.9.
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I don't think that is such a great idea - stuff like == vs ===, PHP's class system and PHP's namespaces is all questionable...
They don't have much of a choice but to defer. Political officials are notoriously vindictive. If 23andMe released a scathing response, it would be taken personally by some power hungry politico would make it his personal agenda to destroy the company.

The only industry I can think of that basically told government "Go fuck yourselves" was wall street. Even Big Oil panders.
You would also need a permit for your home-based startup, since you are using a portion of your residential space for business purposes.
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I think the passage of this legislation is enough to answer your question.
I've just pulled a novel off the shelf behind me. It has about 200 pages, each line has about 35 or 40 lines, each line has 10 to 15 words.

35 x 15 = 525
38 x 13 = 494
40 x 11 = 440

It's about 450 words per page, 200 pages, 900x100 = 90,000 words.

A second novel pulled out at random has 330 pages of 38 lines with 12 words/line.

The better answer is - as many as it takes.
India is far worse. Down here if you're rich enough then the law is your private servant. However, if you're poor then you might just end up serving more than 7 years as an under trial before your court day. It doesn't matter if you're innocent or guilty if you're poor. If you're arrested you have to serve time as an under trial due to the byzantine system.

I wish there were some accurate up to date statistics I could link to, but the inaccurate ones themselves are quite telling (http://ncrb.nic.in/PSI2007/prison2007.htm). More than 54245 people were imprisoned for being under trial in 2007. The irony is that if you're well-connected then you don't even need to spend your time in jail if convicted. The press has a ball with such cases and they are decreasing, but they still exist.

On the other hand, I think that a country's justice system is a mirror of the society in which it operates. My real father was a lawyer in Germany and he once explained to me just how different the legal systems of different nations are and just how intertwined they are with the political climate of a country (he's currently doing his PhD on immigration and its socio-economic side-effects which include crime, education etc).

Perhaps, the rise of convictions in the US is a result of a society that wants results fast.Without doubt those tax dollars would reap higher returns if they are wisely invested in programs that benefit those in poverty. The ghettos are the root of a lot of crime, and if their conditions are improved and they're given a lifeline then slowly over time things will change. The problem is that just like in India it is far more impressive to be "tough on crime", than to work at a solution that will take longer than your term in office to give returns.

The same would apply to a lot of other debates. It is so easy to apply a quick-fix, but so difficult to improve something with decades of hard-work. An interesting question is that if there are any countries at all whose culture promotes such things?

P.S. - This paragraph just broke my heart;

>>>But in prison she found she was pregnant. After going through labour shackled to a hospital bed, she was allowed only 48 hours to bond with her newborn son. She was released in March, found a job in a shop, and is hoping that her son will get used to having her around.<<<

I really don't understand how people can treat other human beings like this?
"Innocent defendants may plead guilty in return for a shorter sentence to avoid the risk of a much longer one. A prosecutor can credibly threaten a middle-aged man that he will die in a cell unless he gives evidence against his boss. This is unfair, complains Harvey Silverglate, the author of “Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent”. If a defence lawyer offers a witness money to testify that his client is innocent, that is bribery. But a prosecutor can legally offer something of far greater value—his freedom—to a witness who says the opposite. The potential for wrongful convictions is obvious."
The ability to write code in a complex manner is not the same as a complex language. I can write completely incomprehensible PHP code too, that doesn't mean PHP is a complex language. It means I'm a bad coder (in that language).
BASIC was the first language I did anything with. I was a co-op during college at this company that made 4 wheel drive systems and they were working on an electronically controlled transfer case.

I was given the task of importing raw data captured at the test track into very uninformative spreadsheets. I wrote macros to generate charts presenting all the different parameters. Also very uninformative.

I came up with a much better way to present the data using BASIC. I drew a picture of a car with 4 wheels. The front wheels turned and the rear wheels flashed when they lost traction. I had a bar graph showing for the engine and a transfer case that flashed when power shifted to the front end. You could vary the speed, run it in a loop and even run it backward.

With this you could actually see the wheels turning under power starting to break loose and system responding to correct it. Just one problem when they got it to the test track and looked at data immediately after a test instead of weeks later: The steering rack actually turns in the opposite direction that the wheels do, so the wheels turned in the wrong direction!

Thanks, BASIC. good times :-)
There are many people in US prisons who wouldn’t be in jail if they did the same thing in Germany (e.g. no three strikes law or mandatory sentencing in Germany).

The prison population might still be higher without those laws because of a difference in crime rate – but not quite as high.
I do not think most people are in favour of legalizing weed if by most people you mean the general population and not the teenagers.
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Hotels pay a lot of taxes in support of local attractions, parks, museums, and other such facilities. It seems reasonable to me that if your rending your place in less than 1 month increments you should be regulated as a hotel and pay those taxes.

Now add to that the fact there are external costs to short term rentals (random renters through more wild party's) and banning these seems reasonable to me.
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We get to vote for either dictator 1, dictator 2 or dictator 3. There are no democratic flavors left.
At least 197 hacker-news people have found it interesting, for some reason. Just flag it if you don't like it.

I guess we've all submitted things that are seemingly irrelevant to startups and hacking from time time.
Take it this way, you got gamers to pay enough attention to your game long enough that they would take the effort to leave a bad comment.

I worked as a game reviewer and I could actively avoid bad games, so there's obviously an element in the game you made that was drawing people's attention and keeping it. Find that element, redevelop and release anew.

From what I could tell a new-franchise in games had as good odds as a movie of hitting big - IE purely random. Simply try again.

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This isn't good - it seems like this week's edition got blocked by gmail's spam filter (at least for me and a couple others). Anyone else see the same thing? I had been getting 60%+ on my open rate, but I think this will kill that.

Why would this get marked as spam? Any ideas?
I find it hard to believe that quoted statement. Although I am not an American, I think the legal system of America is very much based on the British system, thus there are very many similarities.

I think judges are very resistant to anything which tries to undermine the principle of intent. If a statute does not make it absolutely clear that the crime is of strict liability, then even the most general words would be interpreted as requiring intent in criminal cases.

Without intending something the government has no legitimacy to imprison the person in most cases. Its a fundamental principle. So, if you are going to make such a big statement concerning the fundamental principle of the criminal law, the least the article could have done is to give some examples, or to give a reference to some journal which documents such "weakening".

As they have not bothered to do either, I would take it as a generalised opinion perhaps with very little basis.
Museums and other public services are subsidized with taxes on on hotels. It could easily be a net loss for the city for people to use short term housing vs fewer people using hotels.
It's a shame it got called Perl 6... Perl 5 has been cracking along and is by no means stale: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/ms...
Sure, this is how democracy always worked. I don't know about you but I hate it when a politician forces me to live, eat and work the way he wants, not the way I want.

I don't believe your example is a good one, because the housing bubble was not caused by the market. It was caused by irrational expansion of credit. Of course the market is the expression of what people want, but those "wants" are heavily distorted or encouraged by monetary policy. There is no market in the money making business (it's a government controlled monopoly).
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P6 is to P5 as VB.NET is to VB. It's the same language but not really.
For those of you who are skimming this thread, read the response and skip the article. The GAO's report is premature on anything substantial, except (possibly) these companies should emphasize that some of their secondary "conclusions" are quite tentative.

The response points out that there are good conclusions from these companies with which the GAO does not find exception.

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Lying can be an offence in many cases. I am not sure about criminal, but defamation for example is basically lying about another person, so too lying to someone about what you are selling, etc. but yeah you do make a good point.
That is so true. There really is never "only one way to do it" because Programmers think differently.
> random renters thr[ow] more wild part[ie]s

If people are causing noise disturbance to others. it's reasonable that there be legislation that covers that specific case, regardless of how long the people are staying in the apartment. Because otherwise you're penalising all short term letters for the misdeeds of a few, which is wrong.
@DublinClontarf, yeah, I used to use TOR hosted on a private slice, but thats also insecure. I'd use a paid VPN to buy pass it these days.

Btw, I used to live in Clontarf for quite a while..
Why does this comment keep being downvoted? I think he is making a fine point, would you rather prisoners sit around do nothing all day, or are given some work to do which improves them and improves the country in a way paying back their dues.

Seeing as there was this article which said that keeping busy makes us happy, the least the downvoters can do is state as to why prisoners should not be made to work?

If you are going to compare prison with slavery, how about starting with the one thing they have in common, they both are denied their right to liberty!
Answer: Not very.
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Assemblyman Richard Gottfried states in this interview that the law is designed to eliminate 'illegal hotels', where real estate companies or building owners rent out many units in a building. He says that they have never gone after people renting out their rooms, and doesn't expect that to change:
http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/jul/08/illegal-hotel-crac...
Actually, it strongly depends on the region. I live in one of the "lawful" ones.
Not technically "project management software," but our company uses JIRA with Greenhopper for project tracking and Confluence for project documents. The whole package can be pretty pricy for small companies.
The only problem is that you ignore the nature of men and his history. Nation states are a relatively new thing. People used to live in city states, principataes, and that sort of thing, but then you get Persia for example who wants more and more territory and to rule everyone, then you get Rome, Alexander of Macedonia, Islamists in 600s, etc.

I think we all want to be one world with no border without any government whatsoever. It is unfortunate however that a government is needed.

Personally, I favour Aristocracy combined with some form of accountability to the people. Thus a combination of Aristocracy and democracy.
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One example might be parks. Do you feel entitled to use Central Park, even though you didn't create it?

Whoever planned that part of NYC did a pretty good job of fair distribution, I think. Some for everyone to enjoy, some taxes taken for upkeep, everyone's a winner.

I don't think the market would do a good job of allocating that resource.
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If only the world were as simple as that. Location and family play a huge role in whether you can create (as much) wealth.
I have a question does the churn rate he talks about (less than .8% of users stay more than a year) apply to startups aimed at business critical applications like inventory control etc.?

I do know that most business "software" is horrendously underused, but does anyone know the actual churn rates? Also does it vary for desktop applications? If so what types and why?
It is an interesting article; that's not really the point. The problem is that this sort of "rabble rousing" article about politics or economics begets more articles just like it. At first they're likely to be good ones, but then they start attracting more and more junky ones, and more users who come for the politics, and so on and so forth.

Luckily, so far, this site hasn't gone that far downhill - pg and company have mostly been vigilant about letting too many of these through.
He also makes an unwarranted leap from C++, Java, and C to all compiled languages, though I’ll bet users of Haskell, Clojure, and the like would beg to differ.
No he didn't. The community does not owe him an explanation for what they like and dislike. Also, reading this same question in many threads becomes a bit annoying.

This article and any other article is on here because someone submitted it and rather than be ignored like countless of other articles, it was actually liked and attracted more than one hundred comments and more than that votes.
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It's not compiled languages, it's languages that are too verbose and too complex that are the problem. If you want to use a compiled language that doesn't suck, try Common Lisp or Haskell. I don't understand how he made the jump from "Rob Pike doesn't like C++/Java" to "We should write everything in Ruby and Javascript!111".
This zooming paradigm appears to be what has been superfluously part-implemented in KDE4 on the desktop in the form of activities?
I think this is the answer. JS is the new BASIC - or a new BASIC, anyway - but it is harder to tell because the audience is more diffuse, and mixed up with so many other audiences.

In the earliest days of PCs it was easy to spot the BASIC programmers: most people who owned a PC learned a little. What else was there to do with it? And computers were expensive, so odds were that if you owned one you were pretty fond of computers.

Now the situation is like that in music: we are in a golden age of programming, but it is hard to appreciate because it is so diffuse and varied: The equivalent of the big arena rock show isn't there.
Under "Advanced Farting," isn't the molar volume wrong? I think the program is assuming STP, but the human body is much warmer and possibly under more pressure as well.
Very likely. But it is the point in relation to "Anything that good hackers would find interesting".
Ouch. I was just trying to find a lead lining in the asbestos cloud, but that didn't go over too well.
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That is an entirely inaccurate description of Australian politics. Bible thumping rarely appears in Australian political life. The current Prime Minister is a declared aetheist, and they can get just about any laws through with the support of the left-wing Green party.
Well, they kind-of are, they are subject to the discipline of the market for votes.

But the problem is when most voters don't care about a particular issue, and a small minority (in this instance hoteliers) do. I would introduce reforms to partially overcome these problems:

1. politicians can only make something illegal with a super-majority (say 55 or 60%). This means there is an automatic bias towards liberty.

2. recall elections for politicians at all levels

3. ban businesses from donating money to politicians. It just creates too many opportunities for corruption.

4. all legislative assemblies to be elected by proportional representation. This would mean genuine voter choice rather than 2 monolithic big parties.

5. all assemblies at lower than the country level (which in the US, means state governments and below) are allowed to legalise any activity made illegal by a higher government on a straight 50% of the vote. As with (1) this is also a bias towards liberty.

6. any law passed by any assembly must be subject to a referendum if enough people want it.
The problem with that statement is that it ought to read "Anything that good hackers would find interesting, but that wouldn't be so interesting to the general public", or something along those lines. There are plenty of things I find interesting that other hackers find interesting, as well as zillions of people who care nothing for code or startups. Most likely, they aren't appropriate for this site.
Could anyone at the talk explain the three charts on slide 62? What are they representing?
Perl didn't introduce dictionaries first. Awk and Smalltalk did that before Perl. Perl got the idea from Awk.

Also, note that Tim's probably right about string manipulation. A lot of times when Smalltalk was perceived as slow even when it was fast, had to do with string manipulation. (And bad programming!)
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>Seriously beautiful post layout

Shame about the blog chrome. Seriously all I had above the fold was the fish picture and until I looked at the scrollbar I'd nothing to indicate that the page had any content, I assumed it was some sort of flash game.

Also within the post the code overflows the code boxes for me (I'm 2 clicks up on font size).

Looks to be some problem on the all-posts page too - http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/all-posts/ FWIW.
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Doesn't work with JavaScript.

Search Google for "browser testing" for some screenshot services that do.
Too many laws, too much corruption.
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The question is a bit vague but I would be ready for the following:

- Your road map may appear clear now but expect to pivot
- Don't believe all the hype with your first success, keep working hard
- Marketing and standing out in the crowd is difficult
- Start building relationships now with influencers who you'd like to engage later

Without more on actually what you need advice on is tough but all I can say is be ready for highs and lows and try keep plugging away.

Best of Luck
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Sorry, i meant 170k is how much members of congress get paid