skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heres my take there are only three possibilities here:

1) The Mosque is of anti-american Muslims. That should be stopped.

2) The more likely scenario is that these are just Muslims wanting to build a Mosque in their neighborhood.

3) Maybe (2) but to show that Muslims care for the victims just as anyone do.

For (1) I say take the same action as you would with a confederate flag in a black neighborhood. If the people beat the shit out of them, great.

For (2) it should be allowed, period. It is their constitutional right to practice their religion and it is bigotry to blame all Muslims for the actions of the few.

For (3) more power to them, hope they succeed.

Edit: Since it seems to be point (1) then we should stop it. I don't feel property rights ever play into the argument though. The only argument I have is, if it is their property, they should have the right to build a religious establishment for the purposes of the community. If that is not the goal, they should be denied the right to build there.
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According to one of Talibans Leaders ... America is going down if an App Store for Afghanistan doesnt come up soon.
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The Other Guys is written and directed by famous writer and director, Adam McKay. It is an upcoming action comedy which depicts a fictional Police Department of New York.
It's hard for me to envision it being too much earlier than that -- take a look at this chart: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&ctype=l&s... -- it's not like the US isn't a moving target.

Especially if the US and EU get serious about alleged currency manipulation -- it's funny to see a graph of US to Yuan stay virtually flat for many years dispite their economic growth: http://www.google.com/finance/chart?q=CURRENCY:CNYUSD&tk... -- compare that to organic exchange rates: http://www.google.com/finance/chart?q=CURRENCY:CNYEUR&tk... and http://www.google.com/finance/chart?q=CURRENCY:GBPUSD&tk...

Btw, it seems China is the world's largest auto market by units sold, not by dollars/yuan sold -- which is an odd way to think about it. Cars are significantly cheaper in China.
Looking forward to playing around with the new Lua interface.
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Most of us realize that network effects are generally very powerful. The English language is probably one of the single most entrenched network effects in the world. Americans know it, Europeans know it, the entire former British empire knows it, and anyone on their way up--China and Japan included--has to learn it to make their way up.

How is the rest of the world going to learn Chinese? I don't expect them to be as enthusiastic about imperialism as the British were, and even if they were, it would take a century for it to matter.
If I use the search then try to click a nav link the page 404s- presumably because it take me to an https connection when there is none. On top of that, if I try to go back to the home page it keeps bringing me to the search.

*I see why it does that. After you search/go somewhere you "lock out" the home tab. What you might want to try doing is looking at the URL. if "invite" in url then change the colour. A bit of javascript can clean that up, and if the browser doesn't support it the tabs will just stay grey. No harm, no foul.

Even after I get back you still do not let me go all the way back. I am literally stuck in the search, and the only way to see the homepage again is to disable cookies. I like ajaxy stuff as much as the next person, but it's set up wrong in this case.

If I am not logged in and try to view "my sets" i get a 404- http://www.fashionistapals.com/menu/my-sets. Instead direct the user to an example set page with the option to join up.
Lot of folks on HN are listed here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clV...
About 7 years. I owed about 12K after graduation and just did the default payment (which would have taken about 16 years, but it was low). Later I borrowed another 12K or so for a car. After year 6 the car was about 1/3 paid off. At that point I read "Vagabonding" which put the idea in my head that debt could be an impediment to freedom. I got a higher paying job. By the time I got around to looking into increasing the monthly payments, I realized I had enough saved to just pay off the loans in one swift stroke.
How about:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Also bear in mind the relative populations of New York, Beijing and Dubai. No surprise Dubai looks "tiny".

Not that I'm standing up for Dubai - I didn't like it at all when I went there and it has some very serious problems. I think the demographics don't match the form of the city very well - the city is too large and the buildings are too grand to match the people who are actually there (who are mostly construction workers it seems).
Here's a CouchApp that (with a non-demo dataset) we use internally for TODO management. I have a copy running on my laptop, on my MacMini at home, on the office server, in the cloud, and of course, on my Android phone. I synchronize them when I feel like it (but I could configure it to continuously synchronize in the background).

http://couchapp.couchone.com/focus/_design/focus/index.html#...

For more info on the method of serving HTML5 apps directly from CouchDB's web-server: http://couchapp.org/page/what-is-couchapp
I starting learning how to program just to "see if I could do it". Once I became a good enough to code anything I wanted, programming became boring. There was really no satisfaction in coding something that I already knew how to do.

I think the trick is to keep finding problems that you don't know how to accomplish, and would like to learn/hack a solution.

For me, I eventually started trying to tackle problems from a completely new approach, it got me really excited, and I am now developing my own programming language and start-up around it. And now I have never been more interested in programming in my life. I am completely fascinated with boolean logic and number theory and spend way too much time reading Wikipedia articles on a wide range of nerdy things. Programming became fun again because I was learning again.
about 2 years
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How is this double speak? If every state in the US had its own standard for gas pumps, and everyone traveling had to maintain a collection of nozzle adapters in their trunk, that would impede freedom of travel. Fragmentation and non-standards hurt freedom under its ordinary meaning.
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Swap Oracle for Sun, Google for Microsoft, Dalvik for the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, 2010 for 1997 and I don't see the difference: one big-ass company with a lot of money going after another big-ass company with a lot of money. After a bunch of feisty lawyering, one will pay the other and they'll swap pieces of paper allowing them to go on as before: getting you to write software for their technology stack so they can brag about adoption, penetration, and the unparalleled quality of freely-available libraries for their platform; lather, rinse, repeat.

Regardless, Clojure will remain the best way to survive the twilight of the Java era.
See also http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-on-UI-UX-design...
thank you duck... i will look into it
Yes, you should probably stay away from too clever hacks in production code. But pushing the language for fun is fine with me.

Perhaps somebody will even write up a PEP for properly defining your own operators?
http://longform.org/
I reached the point where it was either quit the software industry or work on something I could be passionate about. I chose the latter.
Delayed_job (and other daemons) in a production environment
I remember in User Interface design (2002, Georgia Tech) the timing diagrams of menus vs hotkeys in many studies. Hotkeys took much less time in the perception of the users, but actually took more real time in measurements. Apparently time "stops" while the user attempts to recall the correct keys to press, however they notice the time that is required to move the mouse and operate the menus.

That doesn't mean all hotkeys are bad, but it always makes me wonder how much is perception and how much is real speedup in these types of articles

(I use gVim as an editor, even in XCode, don't portray me as a menu jocky in replies).
At what age was your peak, or do you feel it is still to come?
Jesus, that's nasty. Hacking python bytecode is far, far worse than import *. I'd be more inclined to just use __all__ in your module to hide the bits that you don't want.
Nice.

I'm a big fan of http://www.bustaname.com/ - particularly the random generator: http://www.bustaname.com/word_maker
He says that universities shouldn't be expanding because their job is to educate more people. Come again?
On the other hand, the fact that it's inaccurate and weak suggests even more that it's not 'clinical'.
Why not consider it a reader macro, and translate it to (@ foo bar) or whatever is appropriate, before applying macro expansion?
absolutely agree. I think your take on the "conducive life situation" is cool.
Thanks for the advice, everyone! BTW, does anyone have a data/voice plan they'd recommend?
Hmm, site looks down- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com.
I asked her about this: "Doctors don't have to clean feces off of people who are too obese to move."

She said, "Yes, we do. Not only have I had to do just that, but I've had to put my finger in the rectum of an obese, eighty-year-old man, and literally pick out an impacted wedge of poop, after which, I had to insert a tube that I squirted water into and use a bucket to catch what came out. Later in the day, when I was checking on somebody, they vomited on me. And this was at the end of a thirty-hour shift, during which time I had slept like thirty minutes. Bite me. These were not isolated incidents."

The other thing she's said to me (a lot) is that nurses can easily make $50K a year right out of undergrad (or more), and she's actually right about this because I didn't believe her at first: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp ; the median salary for beginning nurses is $52,700. If they don't like what they're doing, they can switch the kind of nursing they do (while being paid) or retrain as nurse anesthetists or nurse practitioners, who make over $100K a year.

In contrast, doctors have to go to med school for four years, incur a lot of debt, and do a hellacious residency for three to nine years. Nurses can get jobs with 500 hours of clinical practice; doctors need more like 20,000K hours: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/media/kits/fp-np/educatio... .

In any event, there are shitty parts of nursing, but it offers good pay for reasonable amounts of work.
>Even if they get to just half of the US GDP

They almost did, $1.33 trillions is quarterly GDP, they need 20% more. They'll get that in a few years.

Resource exhaustion will become a soft limit pretty fast. I don't believe in Malthusian hard limits, but extraction and distribution systems may grow more slowly than demand even without hard resource limits.
J++ applications did not run on Sun's Java SDK. Microsoft sold it as Java but it was incompatible with Sun's Java implementation.
if you claim that O(cn) and O(n) are different classes then changing the meaning is exactly what you are doing. i think what you are missing is that in mathematics, the meaning of a concept is principally derived from its formal mathematical definition (in this case the one jacobolus supplied you with above, from which it is a trivial exercise to prove f(n)=O(n) iff f(n)=O(cn)), not other things
yes, and http://domai.nr
Do you dispute the core of my argument, or are you principally interested in this particular semantic diversion? If the latter, do you feel that it actually helps answer the original poster's question? If the former, then what more do you feel that you have to gain by continuing along this line of argumentation, since I've already stated my agreement above?
no, a proof that P!=NP would most likely have no immediate consequences for engineering ("practical") applications to anyone, the people most interested in resolution of P vs NP are complexity theorists and other theoretical computer scientists
Great points on both sides. I think a top in the world business person is as helpful for a company as a top engineer, but this doesn't have to be a co-founder. It can an advisor or later hire that has a transformative effect on a business.

Also I would point out consumer internet business people might not be able to have the same impact as a top bd person for an enterprise software company as ES companies have greater needs on building real sales organizations while consumer internet relies on marketing a social phenomena.
"GDP in current U.S. dollars. Not adjusted for inflation."

It would be nice to see the inflation adjusted figures.
Thanks to everyone who helped break it down. I had no idea my comment would actually get this level of a response.
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Sort of an OK article, but he misses the big point: the USA spends more money on their war department than the rest of the world combined, and we don't get any decent kind of return on that investment (although the defense industry and the congress members who they bribe do).

Sorry to sound cynical, but when talking about the economy, people tend to ignore the proverbial 800 pound gorilla in the room: 'defense' spending. This should be the center of conversation about the economy.
Wasn't this just on HN a few days back? Why you dont use Garamond on the web - http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-hackers-why-you-...
I can definitely buy that for occasional tasks. The times that menus really irk me are when I have to do something frequently, and I'm clicking through to the same damn dialog-popped-up-from-a-nested-menu several times an hour.
I like to read http://www.newsweek.com for international politics topics. Their articles on the the Afghanistant/Pakistan region are very interesting to read.
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We don't do a lot of re-reading, so I'd wait till you're pretty near done to submit.
Well, well, this reminded me why they speak Chinese in Firefly.
It seems like schools are focused more on expanding their brands, and growth than educating.

I think there are certain industries, like health care and education that shouldn't be treated like for-profit ventures. It probably won't sit well with this crowd, but there are some things in life that should supercede wealth acquisition.
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My apologies - I spoke in haste.
Yes - I got my refund. I'd only glanced at my CC statement - and noticed wakemate in passing - and assumed it was a new charge.

(On a somewhat related note (and I'm not holding this against you at all) -- technically I'm down 30 cents on wakemate. Paypal initially charged me $5.61 AUD and then refunded my $5.31 AUD. I realise that it's $5 US both times - just thought it was worth mentioning)
Bustaname.com has some neat functionality, whereas Bruteforcenaming.com is super simple.
And defense spending is where billions are lost on side-projects which if made in the public sector, would lead to tons of innovation, but in the defense sector only lead to innovations on killing, which never helps the economy.
Guam has more cables going into it than all of Australia or Africa.
Svalbard has the global seed vault and NASA is doing things there. I would assume it's largely used for research.
We survived, but to help protect us from future suits we went on a patenting binge. Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure.

This illustrates very clearly just how dangerous (if understandable) this mindset is. Don't fool yourself that you're only filing "defensive" patents. A patent is a weapon and the fact that you don't intend to fire it is no guarantee that somebody else won't later. What's worse, with everybody patenting every dumb thing under the sun out of fear, there's that much more ammunition lying around for unscrupulous people down the road to use.
NATO defence installation, maybe?
If they have cofounder equity we treat them as de facto cofounders.
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This is a great article. The shift to super angel is primarily a model that favors entrepreneurs structurally. I would expect the trend to continue until the entrepreneur/angel group is hard to differentiate. Talented people will jump back and forth and fund each other's companies so that it appears your startup is funded by a ton of other startup CEOs.
100 must read books. What would you add??
Perhaps the spur was a carrot that could never be reached, rather than actual gains?
I am still in the customer discovery/ideation phase... am I a good candidate for your program? Also, I'm going to be in Mountain View for the Founders Conference on 8/17 coming from Austin, TX... is it possible to tour the YCombinator offices?

Let me know and thanks.
> I find p very natural because I think "print" every time ... I can do everything I need to do, plus it is obvious how to do it

Probably more because you've used it for a while. I generally prefer longer variable names to help with readability, which makes the accumulator/with technique more verbose and harder to read.

If you don't like import * , you can use a combination of from ...lib.html import p, h1, h2 and from ...lib import html, but as long as your namespace is clean (ie. use __all__) and you're clear that the module is designed to be imported that way, I don't see that it's a huge issue, particularly if it clears up a lot of clutter.

There's also nothing in that API that prevents you looping, or assigning helper variables - you just store local variables before you generate your template or create sections of your template a bit at a time. Or use list/generator comprehensions, which would fit the functional paradigm a bit better. A couple of examples:

ul( *[li(option.name) for option in options], style="dropdown", ...)

def index_page(request):
my_name = reqest.GET.get('name', 'Bob')
head = html.head( title('Hello, %s' % my_name))
body = html.body( h1('...'), p('..'))
return html.html(head, body)

Of course, all of this is developed using the POOMA methodology, so there might be some hideous limitation, but I can't see any from a few minutes thought.
Ask HN: What do you think of profit sharing?
I have been invited to help out with a promising startup. There are 3 co-founders, and then 1 engineer. He is currently building the entire site and they have invited me to help out.

Obviously, they have no money so they are asking me to join the team and work for free. Rather than offer equity, they have created a profit sharing plan, where 20% of the net income of the company is split among employees who hold a share. I would have 1/9 of this 20%. Also the stock in the profit sharing is non-transferable, not sellable, etc. It's only good while I would be an employee.

I've seen lots of posts about typical equity percentages after a round of funding, but what about early stage startups?

What kind of equity should I be looking for? What about the profit sharing plan?
Do you dispute the core of my argument, or are you principally interested in this particular semantic diversion? If the latter, do you feel that it actually helps answer the original poster's question? If the former, then what more do you feel that you have to gain by continuing along this line of argumentation, since I've already stated my agreement above?

it sounds like you are irritated that you are being contradicted. i think the solution in this case is that you stop saying things that are flagrantly wrong. i am interested in "this particular semantic diversion". you have been taking a rather confident, definite tone in your various assertions and someone could easily get confused into believing there is legitimate content in your mathematical errors

by the "core of [your] argument" i assume you mean the idea that problems may be solvable in polynomial time but not necessarily quickly solvable in practice, therefore it is a simplification to call the elements of P "easy." that is of course indisputable, but i think the heuristic argument that P problems are easy is more forgivable than the mathematical error of saying O(cn) != O(n) because, like, y'know, asymptotics and stuff
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I just went and looked and your 2010 application was a late application. We didn't send individual "no" emails to late applications; we just posted something on HN saying that we'd now talked to all the people we were going to from the late applications.

Incidentally, the odds of getting accepted are much lower for applications after the deadline.
In general i'd recommend you put yourself in roles where you can accelerate your learning; don't settle into a role that you've figured out and understand....keep pushing yourself and seek out mentors along the way.
Most businesses don't need Knuths. They need "smart & gets things done".

This can't be said enough. I so often see people get caught up on which technology, framework, or paradigm is right for a given idea (or worse, constantly revise them) that they get slowed down dramatically, or in extreme cases, deadlocked. I do it myself from time to time. Start by grinding something out and going from there.
I think it might be a bit early to write Dubai off. Maybe the overbuilding will drive the rent down and attract businesses. The middle-east seem to be a very good emerging new market.

I'm pretty sure that innovation and real solid businesses don't come from hype, but away from the media spotlights and pundits.
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I would like to know if there is any pre-paid payment module that can be used in my web application for handling the payment functionalities. Essentially, its a model where people load it with cash and use it till it expires.

I am intersted in any such module that can be integrated into my system.(commercial / open source)
Good point, would you prefer

p.raw(u'Hello, ' + thing)

and

p(html.title(name + ' | ' + section + ' | ' + page)))

or better yet (remember that these are all strings funcs)

p(html.title(pipe_separate(name, section, page)))
There is one very widely held theory that no one is voicing here.

http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htm
Which peak? Peak of brilliance? Peak of knowledge? Peak of productivity?

I don't make as many new discoveries these days as I used to; but that's at least in part because I know much more.
It's also interesting to note that China's economy is not just about low-tech anymore but gradually become more and more higher-tech. Where Chinese cities welcomed all the cheap toy factories a couple of yours ago, I remember reading a Washington Post China article about the fact that certain areas in China ban these kind of factories now. These areas only want higher (not high) tech factories to reach out to different employees and investors. The low tech (toy) companies now move to Vietnam/Laos etc.
I did Comp Sci at a major Canadian university. I used OSAP or a bank loan for each year of study. I've never put in a lump sum. Paying only regular monthly payments got me finishing maybe 10 or 11 years after graduation.
Ideally I can use the name for my upcoming web framework as well, a la Django Templates.

Also, the template language has an html helper lib which I describe in the docs, but it also has an xml lib, an rss lib, and really (since it's just strings) can generate any kind of textual template not just html markup.
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