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module Comment where

import Control.Exception (assert)

class Loveable thing where
loves :: Person -> thing -> Bool

instance Loveable ScrewDriver where
_ `loves` PhillipsHead = False

instance Loveable ProgrammingLanguage where
Me `loves` Haskell = True
TheOtherGuy `loves` Haskell = True
_ `loves` _ = False

data ScrewDriver = FlatHead | PhillipsHead | Torx
data ProgrammingLanguage = Haskell | Lisp | Scheme
data Person = You | Me | TheOtherGuy

implies a b = if a then assert True b else assert True True

argument person = (not (person `loves` PhillipsHead)) `implies` (not (person `loves` Haskell))

check a = mapM (print . a) [You, Me, TheOtherGuy]

Comment> check argument
True
False
False
the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system

This is a common misconception (which I shared until I studied Japanese).

Writing a sentence may be more of a hassle than with an alphabet based system - and even that would remain to be seen - but reading it is much more efficient due to the more condensed form factor: a page of kanji would take much more space written in romaji.

The fact that Japan and China stuck to an ideogram-based writing system did not stem from a lack of alternative. Japanese actually has had not only one but two syllabic alphabets for more than a millenia (1). Yet kanji were kept, notably because of the numerous homophones in the Japanese language.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#History
Not only. It's not the "current government" action, but Germany has some law to finance shorter work time during crises. Thus companies can start over now that contracts are coming in with almost pre-crisis workforce and skills. America can't do that that way with all the layoffs.

Also, while the car industry is very important in Germany, a good part of the exports to China and other growing countries are made on big, complex machines and infrastructure-building products.
Just to confirm your arguments, I'm quoting from from http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article545833.ece:
"Although stretching cable for about 3,000 kilometers from Andoeya to Longyearbyen seems inconvenient, the spot has been carefully chosen. Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) has specialized in retrieving data from satellites in polar orbit..."

And then from http://www.ksat.no/Products/Svalsat.htm:
"The satellite coverage at this latitude holds unique opportunities and SvalSat is the only commercial ground station in the world able to provide all-orbit-support (14 of 14 orbits) to owners and operators of polar orbiting satellites."
Russia is a seriously sick. Think cancer and viruses flooded whole organism. There is almost no healthy cells. Although whole system tries to act_as_gov, there is already no gov as such. No such country as Russia. No laws, no justice, no safety, nothing.
Every Russian feels perfectly ok to pay road police officer money when speeding. Policeman bought that job for like $10k and have to pay to his chief. Just one example but shows how deeply it is.

Its kinda stupid to deny such problems although that something that government puts most of its efforts to. Still Russia is a promising market for you(think no taxes, lots of customers with dirty money..) if you are willing to play that rules. I am out. Pretty much snow Nigeria.
Have you considered going to any country where the employment situation is better than in the US? Germany for example will be searching many skilled employees due to an aging workforce. Plus you get state-financed retirement, 6 weeks of holidays per year, that you can even extend by doing overtime the rest of the time.

Don't know how hard it is to get a work visa though for US citizens.
looks weird on chromium with the 'what is paisa' being slightly occluded by 'charts'...

edit: looks ok on firefox.
Isn't this the free market speaking? Maybe the message is that the VC's need to change their ways. Treat founders better, have their interest and they will come back.

If the ways startups are created is changing (nimble, cheaper), why shouldn't the way their being funded change?
Probably not. But many photographers have fallen in love with certain kinds of cameras or techniques or development methodologies. And many musicians have fallen in love with particular kinds of instrument or playing styles. And I know gearheads who will go on for hours about the virtues of Obscure Mechanical Thing A versus Obscure Mechanical Thing B.

But no, programming languages must be like screwdrivers. You just mindlessly turn them clockwise all day and you've created Google. Right?
That 'power saving feature' was the most irritating thing since pop-up advertising to anyone not using the mouse to scroll through.. I couldn't focus on the article because of the multiple interruptions and then the constant thought that I'd be interrupted again if I didn't move the mouse. Nice thought, horrible, horrible implementation.
Very nice site , quite fast.

One question - Is it a policy not to have the BSE or NSE not there, i could not find them under Asia.

My thinking is i would come to a site called Paisa.com looking for insights into the Indian markets - may be thats not the focus.
4 points for not reading my post?(; You must have a lot of friends^^

1st: I didn't say IronRuby, but IronPython
2nd: I said in our company

Thanks to the second comment for getting the second fact straight.
Sometimes it feels like it's 1999 all over again...
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Damn Bram, thank you, man!
True, but one point in its favor is that you could use it with real people, which is always something of an incentive. Studying, say, German or Italian in the US pretty much means that you'll have to get on a plane if you want to practice it in anything but an 'artificial' environment.

That said, Italian is pretty much one of the more useless languages in the world for anything outside of Italy, but I'm still quite happy with my choice:-)
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Do we have to travel for interview if selected? I am thinking of applying for Summer 2011 and if me/co-founder have to travel then it completely changes cash management as we are currently based in India. Also does it make sense to apply to YC if the product we are building in very India centric and solves a local problem? I mean I would definitely like to get some advice from pg/rest of YC but for a India centric product will we get relevant advice?
If one app is particularly likely to invite trouble (e.g. Apple might sue your pants off), it might be a good idea to incorporate them separately so that even if that app goes bankrupt, all your other apps can completely ignore the blow. IANAL, but I know of companies that do such things for precisely this reason.
I couldn't resist a shameless plug for my search engine that I recently launched: http://www.moreofit.com

I often find myself in need of an answer to the question: what are the most popular sites that have to do with x, y, and z? If you're looking for high quality websites about something, just type in a few keywords and have a go. Sorting by popularity (# times bookmarked on delicious) has turned out to incredibly useful, as it's highly correlated with quality. Also, I suggest that if you find any website that you like a lot you query it and see what comes up. Often times there'll be something even better... Or worse. (Did you know there are like 10 urbandictionary clones that all suck yet somehow manage to sustain themselves?)

To answer your original question:

wikipedia, urban dictionary, metafilter, news, pg essays, past and present Harper's indexes, tech/startup/entrepreneur blogs, TED and fora, and once inawhile popurls.
Paisa.com is geared towards the Indian stock markets. BSE/NSE prices/stats are all available. For the current status, take a look at the chart on top right corner.

The Asia dropdown shows other markets in Asia since it's in the world markets section.
Chinese were arguably even more united in Mao times. Were they successful?
Also, read Peopleware. It's an excellent book for anyone who has to manage technical teams.

http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...

Joel Spolsky mentions that every manager at Microsoft has to read it (I could be wrong on that, but a lot do read it apparently).
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Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050
If I were uncommonly proficient with a nailgun, I would want to know which homebuilders would let me use it rather than the industry standard rock-onna-stick. You don't have to love a good tool to think inferior tools suck.
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I can confirm hearing that also from flight safety experts.
Like! :-)
It mentions however that the system was used after the campaign has switched to night bombing, which was months after the evacuation from France. The error was at least as large as the channel.
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Interesting indeed. If you think all the new tech in WW2 (missile, radar, atom bomb, Enigma, u-boat), calling the WW2 "the first war of engineering" isn't far from the truth.
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This article is crap. He didn't even try to blame the oil spill.
Is The Times making you stupid?
I think you mean fascism.

From the Wikipedia:

Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, is a radical and
authoritarian nationalist political ideology.
Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist
perspectives, values, and systems, including the political
system and the economy.

(Edit: format)
What's Java like? I've never seen it.

I'll bet you've never seen C, you're so stupid.
It's completely different from North America; your hand-wavy equivocation is completely unwarranted. There aren't vast legions of workers brought into the US under false pretenses, who then have their passports confiscated and are forced to work for several years in excruciating conditions just to "earn" their freedom, simply to build a fake city designed to attract morally blind foreigners.
This is absolutely an accurate comment. The fact that content is cached actually makes me see value in this to the point that I might pay for it. I haven't looked at your pricing, but I'd probably pay $10-20 a year. Or pehaps I'd just roll my own.
First, I believe that the world of shrink-wrapped proprietary software should die.

Second, I fail to see how inheritance solves your problem: "The code using LibType is code you don't control; you can't change it to use MyType instead."

OK, let's try this with inheritance.

class LibType { Handles 3 cases }
class MyType extends LibType { Handles a fourth case }

Now tell me: how would you make the code of the library use an object of type `MyType` instead of `LibType`? If you don't control its code, I see only one way: somewhere, this library expects an object of type `LibType` as a parameter.

Interestingly, idiomatic functional programming do just that: passing functions as parameters. Or tuples of functions, in that case. You know that an object is just a tuple, right?. For instance:

// Statically typed, Class based OO language
class Foo {
int bar(int,);
float baz(float, int);
int x;
}

-- Haskell
data Foo = Foo (Int -> Int)
(Float -> Int -> Int)
Int

-- The same, with record syntax. (for easy access)
data Foo = Foo { bar :: Int -> Int
baz :: Float -> Int -> Int
x :: Int
}

Note that the functions in objects of type Foo aren't fixed. So I can override all I want. Class Polymorphism is cool, but I can do the same with mere parametric polymorphism if I really need to. Sure, the library must be designed for extensibility in the first place, but the same is true about OO libraries: inheriting from a class that isn't designed with inheritance in mind is dangerous.
This should be trivial to test...?
What if social media decided the Premier League?
This one: "System And Method For Dynamic Preloading Of Classes Through Memory Space Cloning Of A Master Runtime System Process (7,426,720)"

Sounds fairly similar to one of the tricks that ETLinux used:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Article...
Tell HN: Have a look at Varnish
Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to share with you the link to an incredible HTTP accelerator: http://varnish-cache.org/

We've been testing a lot of different stacks for our startup (Tyba) and using NGINX (behind) + Varnish (upfront) has allowed us to go from 9 reqs/sec (loading a Wordpress site) to 2500 reqs/sec.

I know it's not a novelty but I wanted to share it in the hope it helps the few people who don't know about it.

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Good point.

However, there are two even bigger line items that American families spend more than $1000 a year on without any documentation or receipt.

Payroll taxes: the amount you see on your paystubs for social security and medicare taxes is actually only half the amount that you pay. The other half is hidden from your eyes under the guise of an "employer contribution" which is a bit of accounting terminology which roughly translates to: straight up bullshit. Employers have no choice but to pay the taxes, on their side it is a cost of maintaining you as an employee, it is thus logically a part of your earnings that you never see on any documentation (imagine if all of your taxes were hidden from you similarly). Self-employed workers have to pay the full 15.3%.

And, medical insurance dues. Again employers hide about 2/3 of medical insurance costs from employees by pretending that an "employer contribution" to employee health insurance payments isn't a part of the employee's salary. Clearly it is and it's shameful that people don't appreciate how much they are truly paying for their health insurance plans. The reason this practice exists is due to wage controls put in place during WWII, in order for companies to attract good employees they had to figure out ways of offering compensation that didn't appear on IRS documentation, so employer paid health insurance became popular.

An American family with insurance through their employer earning the median US income (~50k) pays $3800 in payroll taxes and about $2000 in health insurance contributions every year ($178k over a 30 year career) without ever seeing a line item, a summary, or any scrap of documentation.
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"But a revision to comScore’s methodology sent Hulu’s viewership numbers plummeting, to 24 million in June from 43.5 million in May"

Is that a revision to methodology, or just an expected drop in users during the lull between seasons? I know I haven't been on Hulu since the season finales of my shows...
Good catch, thank you! (fixed)
I know that people are judgmental, so I'm not surprised at all.

I live here with my wife and two young boys, my job and my stack of O'Reilly books. Where are these vapid expats you speak of?
It's almost the exact opposite of that. The peanut gallery seems convinced that Napolean invaded the Soviet Union (i.e. that Google uses Oracle's "Java" in Android). And when someone points out this is wrong (and in fact quite silly, hence the "Um.. no") people respond that everyone knows that the U.S.S.R and Russia are the same (i.e. using Apache Harmony and a Google written VM is the same as using Sun's JDK and JVM), even when it's just been pointed out that they aren't.

It's kind of like the owner of a C compiler and some standard libraries suing you for using a different compiler and different standard libraries. (Maybe they've got stupid patents that they can hit you with, but you're getting hit by them even though you didn't use their stuff).
More context on why Varnish is superior to Squid: http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/ArchitectNotes
Here is a short write up I did for my company blog after attending the now famous HTML5:The Future Of The Web mini conference.

http://blog.mediaplex.com/2010/06/02/html5-why-you-should%C2...
It is a bit far from the truth. Kadesh is possibly the first war of engineering we have accounts of, in which the manevourability of chariots were decisive.

Actually, every nation that challenged the status quo of their times run a war of engineering.Avars and the stirrup, kinghts and the body armor, Turks and the cannon, etc, etc...
Agreed, varnish is awesome, we use it on a home-brew CDN and it has been a fantastic experience so far.

Also, the guy that wrote it (Poul Henning-Kamp) is very responsive when it comes to answering questions or fixing issues, they have an IRC channel at #varnish on irc.linpro.no.

Definitely a piece of software worth looking in to when your website gets bigger.
Did you know "paisa" is how people in Colombia call everyone born on the city of Medellin or the region of Antioquia?
Hooeey seems to be their most similar competitor.
Exploring options is problem solving
It was interesting that the author was the chairman of the religion department at Columbia. If ever there was a college curriculum that was not worth having a student spending many thousands of dollars and four years or more of one's life "studying" it would be that.
Cute! But I disagree and here's why. There is no list of criteria to be a co-founder. I'm sorry to pick on you Jason, but I'm speaking generally and your post happens to fall victim. Co-founder, founder, chairman, executive instigator, this and that; All of them are cute titles to have on your business card, attending the next non-important hot tech gathering in la-la land and none of them have anything to do with your business success.

Maybe I've been surrounding myself with too much tech startup news lately, but It seems to me that because of low barrier to entry in this sector and the flood of weekend projects mashed up together under the influence of 10 red bulls, this community is more obsessed with quantifying every action/inaction of the journey than focusing on the actual journey and the end goal.

My advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is to stop reading about should and would be lists and just go out there and get it done. You don't need a biz dev guy, or know what PR even stands for. Your number one priority is the obsession of getting-things-done.

If you come up with a brilliant new BBQ grille design that sits on top of the camping fire pit, great, find a local fabricator and get a prototype. Pay for the CAD design and send it over to China for overnight production of a dozen samples. No NDA's. NO Investors. No biz devs or marketing guys. By weeks end if you don't have a solid demo of your grille in hand to walk into wal-mart for the sales pitch you booked a month before, you have already lost the battle. Go find a job.

I take issue with reading entrepreneurship advice from a list because it's meaningless to everyone else but the person who wrote it. The more lists we as a group come up with, the worst shape we are as entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone and everyone is not made from the same fabric. So why are we trying to breakdown this pursuit into something everyone could comprehend, because they can't and won't, and only those who really do should not even have the time to read lists after lists of pre-packaged advice, because that means they're not getting-things-done.

My apologies again if this seems like a direct response to the OP, because it's not.
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Agreed. This is why I think PG should make a change to the voting system to make it so that only admins could ever bring a comment's score below 1. As it is now, I see a lot of users' karma penalized simply because at least one other user disagrees with their comment. Offensive or off-topic, fine. But simple disagreement is not a fair reason. Down-voting a comment from say 8 to 7 because you disagree seems reasonable. But bringing it down from 1 to 0 or worse seems unreasonable and contributes to groupthink and political correctness.
Try ending the actual process and then relaunching with your browser of choice open as well (I was having the same problem too)
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Perl 6 subroutines and home made operators
There's so much regulation & inertia with Track 1 that I'd lean to Track 2. In fact, I've already started taking a whack at it.
Dear ruelionheart,

I refer you to my article here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606098

Please - stop spamming Hacker News.

And let me just add that even though I simply love getting the gorgeous Russian girls on my screen, begging me for a date, showing me their assets, I won't be visiting your site ever again.

Thanks.
Defining infix operators in Perl6 is very straightforward.

For eg:

sub infix:<.oO>($name, $thought) {
say "$name thinks $thought"
}

"szabgab" .oO "Perl 6 is cool";

ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1607254
Ideas are cheap and, more often than not, non-technical people have bad ones.
I've gotten thoroughly conversational in both German and Russian in the course of about a year by my own, somewhat unconventional method, which I see no reason couldn't also be applied to Arabic (though it'll probably take a decent bit longer):

1) Learn to read the alphabet, including as much pronunciation as possible (Trivial with German, slightly harder with Russian)

2) Learn just enough grammar to be able to recognize units of meaning and general semantic structure(ie be able to recognize generally when somethings a new word vs a new form of an old word, as well as word order). If you spend more than a week on this, you've spent far too much time.

3) Scour the web for children's stories and other material aimed at beginning readers. Pop the stories into google translate, and go word by word, making sure to distinguish each's meaning. Don't worry about consciously memorizing words, just cram in the volume. Aim for an hour a day. Subvocalise so you get the idea of the sounds of words

4) Once you're getting through stories with relative ease, search out video material where both the audio and the subtitles are in that language (This may be hard, depending on the language. Anime is a GREAT source of this type of thing for Russian). Speak along with the dialogue.

5) Once your comprehension's gotten good, seek out native speakers, and pester them to all ends of the earth (I admit unfair advantage in having a ready supply of conversational partners in both languages). Quantity, quantity, quantity.

I feel this approach trades off comprehensibility and fluency for absolute grammaticaloty, though I wonder if it might have gotten me past the toil threshhold (the line at which it is pleasurable, rather than a chore, to consume media/converes in a lanuage) a bit faster, with commesurate long term learning benefits.
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Keyword translations

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