skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even encryption was important in WW1. The Germans did a pretty good job at listening to the Russian communications.
Wait, so you're saying that the dollar stays relevant because the US is using violence to ensure it stays so? And you're calling such activity an "investment"?
I believe some international freight forwarders and delivery services offer part of the service described in (2) - a US address that pays for and receives goods and an African facility to forward them onto and collect payment from the end user.
"Professional troll" is more appropriate - I think he genuinely knows what kind of reaction his writing will provoke, and goes straight for the jugular.
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Submitted many times:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/how+will+you+measure+your+li...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575778

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527709

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520923

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515281
One of Python's doctrines is "There is only one correct way to do things", which suits my philosophy perfectly: I don't like having to make decisions, I like it being obvious what the correct way of doing things is.

That's why Django's "flexible" approach seems odd to me.
I've always blamed TV for the loss of attention span - passive consumption. The internet, usually, is (more) active consumption, although you can make the point that it delivers in small packets.

Might be symptomatic of life in general, as people put out less effort to do anything - serious reading, like serious anything, requires some effort.
Yes. There's even a conjecture that says that for basically all NP problems all reasonable [1] instances will be solvable in expected polynomial time. Even if P != NP.

[1] Add some hand-waving about probability distributions here.
What? Super-polynomial space implies super-polynomial time.

You can have an algorithm that uses exponential time and only polynomial space, but not the other way around.
There is also at least one submarine out there that has probably been modified to access submarine cables:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_%28SSN-23%29
> Efficient markets have already priced in all these well known reasons for one.

Too bad there's no such thing as an efficient market [1].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
Post's Correspondence Problem is nice. As an exercise you may try to figure out how to simulate a Turing machine in the Correspondence System. If you've done so, you basically have a prove of the undecidablility of this problem.

I worked on this, when I was bored in theoretical computer science classes.
I agree, if you center the container it looks really off-center once you get past those top-right blocks. Left aligned looks great.
Yes, that is how it's set up and yet the Supreme Court does not make the laws or set policy. So the judicial branch of government is limited too -- just as it is meant to be -- by the Separation of Powers.
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Being forced to accept a fair(ish) compensation is way better than just getting disappeared by the government and/or mafia.
> "I make a living off the dumb money," says Emil van Essen, founder of an eponymous commodity trading company in Chicago. Van Essen developed software that predicts and profits from pre-rolling. "These index funds get eaten alive by people like me," he says.

Yeah, that sort of thing is what scares me about investing. I don't want to do it full-time, but it looks like there are tons of smart people out there who do make it their job, and are out to get you.
I am working on a SaaS ad server, it has much of what you want but doesn't have full self-checkout and self-service just yet. It does reduce the rest of the work though so if you are interested drop me a line (in my profile).
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I agree that "hacking" connotes more than simply "coding".

I'm not going to venture more complete definition here, but I think a lot of the themes around "unix culture" (e.g., small pieces loosely joined), open source (e.g. bazaar vs. cathedral approach to design and architecture), and even agile methodologies (e.g. "the simplest thing that could possibly work") could apply. But there's more to it than that.

From this perspective, I agree that you could easily characterize Y Combinator as "hacking" VC. I just don't see what Apple is doing as hacking.

In fact, in some ways it seems to me that Apple is doing the opposite of hacking (or at least trying to give that impression). Apple seems to want to create an impression of "intelligent design" around their products--they've got it all figured out and are delivering it to you complete, fully-formed and flawless. To my mind "hacking" connotes a more evolutionary approach: let's just try this and iterate.

This isn't a value judgement on either approach, I just have a hard time aligning Apple's behaviour as an organization with my personal understanding of "hackerly".
Sure seems optional to me, he should have used must. :)
As the article says, IBM's JVM is an officially licensed (and sanctioned) implementation, meaning they had Sun's / have Oracle's permission. So what could they be sued over?
This sounds great, but if all you're going is sending an AJAX request in the worker and stuffing the response into some element, I don't see much benefit. Most of the time you use an event handler to deal with the response so you're not blocking the main thread anyway. However, if there is any computation, DOM walking, or markup generation, I would definitely use a worker for that.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help the 60% of my users who really need it: the IE users with slow JS engines. I've measured 1-2 order of magnitude differences in performance between IE and Firefox/Chrome/Safari in my codebase, and there's just not much I can do for the IE users without withdrawing functionality I'm required to give them. (I wish Chrome Frame was an option, but I suspect that if they had the ability to use that, they'd have the ability to change browsers too, and they don't.)
I was sort of curious about that middle ground. LangPop is not 'my startup', it's a side project type of thing that I'd like to make some extra cash from.
Economic mobility != http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
That's just it. It is in opposition if it's a fact. The OP said President Obama is expanding government power. If it's a fact that government power is limited by the Constitution and Separation of Powers then no president can expand government power without circumventing these checks and balances. They may expand government influence but not government power. So for the OP to be correct I guess the claim is that President Obama is circumventing the Constitution, Congress and the Supreme Court?

Edit: Actually, I take that back. Since the citizenry and Congress can neglect their oversight duty, presidents can in fact increase government power, as evidenced recently by George Bush Jr. However, in theory the mechanisms exist to place limits on what any single person/politician can do. Making a blanket statement that Obama is increasing government power without providing specific arguments how is not substantive. After all, the same could be said by picking any of the other 43 presidents at random.
Here's an US Amazon.com entry: http://www.amazon.com/Most-Secret-Penguin-World-Collection/d... Based on a review comment and the page count it looks like it's a version of The Wizard War I cited in another posting in this topic.

Lots of inexpensive used paperback editions available.
Of course it's not a sufficient criterion by itself; Sivers' point was that a lot of them won't even do this, so you can at least save yourself the trouble of evaluating them.
"A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people." -- Unknown
The important thing is that he is making money selling books about his opinions. Interestingly many classic writers (think Jonathan Swift) were professional trolls in their time. Writing something that elicits strong emotions and opinions guarantees that people will talk about it, meaning more publicity for the book.
Haha and it's posted by AlanT!
Something hit me:

BSD history is repeating itself...
The first and last step is to start thinking about the 'true' purpose of your website - as a lead generation tool, a system that converts interest into sales prospects. You're the very top of the sales funnel.

The essential purpose of langpop.com is to establish which languages are most popular. Implicitly, most people coming to your site are trying to work out which language is 'best'. The obvious strategy is to work your website towards answering that question and in the process gaining more information about your visitors and their purchasing intent.

As it stands, the only thing we know about anyone on your site is that they have some vague interest in programming languages. The more concrete our picture of your visitors, the more precisely we can target advertising, the better it will convert and so the more you can charge for it. The Adsense algorithm tries to do this implicitly, but it does it relatively poorly.

For example, the "about the languages" section could be expanded massively, with a (keyword-dense) review of each language and (affiliate) links to books, tutorial material, IDEs, code review tools and so on. Adsense links on these pages should see better bids and better clickthrough, but that's entirely secondary.
Transparency International (an NGO fighting corruption) rates France at 26th, India at 84th and Russia at 146th.

The league table can be found here :

http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/... .

It doesn't seem that France is overly corrupt (if maybe overly bureaucratic) and I'd like to second your question for clarification.
I think education system should ideally create employers instead of employees.
-1 On the community - StackOverflow alone is enough to find / get you answers to 99% of your questions in seconds.

+1 On the extensions - They almost never work out of the box and require extensive changes (or usually rewrites). Seems like Django people never figured out how to create portable apps for Django. (And the comment app is Horrible !)
true, but I was at work when I wrote that and was wondering if anyone else out there had a quick answer for me.
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I'm a complete outsider of the subject, but with complex licensing and trivial software patents there's often something overlooked, some clause. One of the comments there mentions incompatibilities in classlibs.
I think it's likely a strategic cross-licensing play, which is to say that Oracle have found they read on one or more patents held by Google and are knocking on the front door with a sledgehammer.
It's been a decade and I'm still paying (although I didn't have to start paying them back until about 3 years after leaving university). Since I studied in the UK, my student loan on leaving (after 4 years) was around 8500 UKP (I was in the last entry year that didn't pay fees), which is a pittance compared to what some of you chaps ending up borrowing.
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well said...
killer domain name :)

And the site looks nice too. Good luck.
Completely offtopic, but I replied to the OP (on reddit) and remembered a problem of my own that I'm having, and I can't quite figure out how to solve.

Nginx + Django -- I have wildcard DNS on mydomain.com, and want to support customers such that customer1.mydomain.com gets its own database. I thought I'd be able to use fastcgi_param to inject a variable to fcgi, and then read it with os.environ.get('fastcgi_param'), and then 'IF' the settings.py to import customer1.settings.py (to override the database), but I can't seem to make it work.

Any thoughts?
I've got into the (probably bad) habit of using setTimeout(returnMethod,1) as a means of overcoming this. It's especially useful for long scripts that fire in the body onLoad event
It sounds to me like it would be easy to circumvent, just like JRockit does (as describe in the article): instead of mixing interpretation and JIT compilation, have different levels of JIT compilation: cheap and unoptimized vs. slow and highly optimized.
If this post were from, say 5 years ago I would have figured it was spot on. But today? Look at all the new OSes coming out now in the mobile/appliance space. Not to mention that Windows Vista/7 was enough of a shift that the learning cost of moving operating systems has gone down relatively (because you'll have to do it regardless).
> The only reason to use adsense is to have something generating revenue until you decide to get serious with your site.

I see styleguidance.com still has google ads ;)
If you're into contrary thinking, that's probably a great moment to BUY...
It's impossible to say, because at no point in his rant does he give any concrete detail on what exactly he was trying to do. I've never had any issues knowing where to put code in Django, or in reading its source code.
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Uh, this is a serious question. The parent seems to make the argument that military is not a bad investment because it brings lots of innovation. I don't think that follows. The US invests vastly more in military than anything else. Of course it's going to have lots of innovation.
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120 points and 67 comments later, I am still waiting to hear PG's point of view. :(
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I certainly think it is possible, but I wouldn't trust their government at all. I would suggest building a prototype ,demonstrate some traction and then move out of the area to grow the business if that would be possible.
You don't really need to incorporate until you have paying customers, so you wouldn't have to deal with any government before that point.
But is there any widely used inflation index that takes house prices into account? It is bound to show tremendous inflation, yet we never see that kind of figures.
ECPM per channel on large volume typically is 16cts.

So if you have multiple ad spots on a page you might increase that a bit but it's not like two adspots work out to 32 cents, the amount per spot goes down as the number of spots goes up.
Some non conventional computers [1][2] do exponential space in polynomial time.

[1] Lipton, R. DNA solution of hard computational problems. Science 268 (1995), 542-545.

[2] Head, T. Aqueous Solutions of Algorithmic Problems: Emphasizing Knights on a 3 x 3. Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 2340
And he did not say polynomial in what.

I can make the program run polynomial in the size of sum of the input numbers. (I.e. pseudo-polynomial in the input.)
Adsense was amazing for the first year, but after it became mainstream, the rates fell drastically.

If your website has a strong brand and design (i.e. isn't a blog) then there's lots of alternatives that pay better.
Chart analysis is the financial equivalent of cargo-cult programming.
I think after the whole Judy Miller and similar scandals the NYTimes has a policy of always disclosing the reason why anonymous sources are anonymous, even if those reasons are a bit pedantic.
I have a good friend that lives in Dubai and echoes the article in saying that racism is incredibly apparent- "British stick with British, Americans with Americans, Indians with Indians etc."

I will be very interested to see what the place will be like in 50 years time.
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but yeah I could do more with it
While it probably won't help you now, a tip for the future: register with a 'throw-away' email address. I usually use username+website@example.com - and once I unsubscribe or delete my registration, I just mark everything coming to username+website@ as spam.

(gmail supports the + notation, as do quite a few others)
You can make a dynamic programming approach run in polynomial time in the size of the input. If you specify the input in unary, that is.
TheStreet is a rag and this article in particular is a blatantly worthless piece of sensationalist "technical" analysis, with winning lines such as: "Anyone ready for a game of craps or roulette? Maybe we should just put all the money under the mattress at this rate and hope the Hindenburg doesn't crash over our houses."
You should try to find vertical ad networks, these are the ones getting the higher ECPMs ($5-$20). I run a couple programmer focused networks, but there are networks out there for just about anything. Here are some off the top of my head:

http://www.sportgenic.com/ - sports focused

http://www.glammedia.com - Gender based

http://www.halogennetwork.com - Influentials

http://www.longboardmedia.com/ - Consumers/Shopping
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566709
Not unless they someone invents a way that can fit all 2000+ chinese characters easily qwerty keyboard.
How long in advance should someone start to look for their visa? Before applying for YC funding?
Could you please be more polite? Thanks!

(And your native language was probably closer related to English than to Chinese. Was it?)
The numbers for Germany aren't too dissimilar.
> there's lots of alternatives that pay better.

Such as ?
Because varnish is more flexible (VCL) and more time tested.

It's also likely[1] faster and more well behaved under high loads, simply because it has been around for much longer and seen more tuning in large deployments.

[1] Disclaimer: I haven't benchmarked them against one another, that's merely my common-sense assessment.
Basically they're offering you a theoretical possibility of a future dividend (without any of the benefits of actually owning equity) instead of a salary or equity. That's a terrible deal. The company has to be making around $2 million a year in profit before your share of the profit starts to resemble an adequate salary (assuming they haven't diluted your measly share by then). If they exit before reaching that threshold then they've made a healthy sum of money whilst you've done all your work for free.

Even if they returned with a much better deal on paper,
I'd find it impossible to trust someone that made that offer. And by the sounds of it, the company is at a stage where even 1/9 of 20% of the equity instead of salary would be a poor deal...
Competing and co-operating.
Thank you, that's quite helpful!
This is (obviously enough) a hot topic. My local Times ran an article yesterday about a group of neuroscientists on a vacation away from technology - the vacation itself being a kind of quasi-experiment. I've just started reading it, but it seems a lot more open-ended or essayistic than the Carr piece.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r...
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Chinese people do write SMS on their mobile phones?
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Looks like it's using a markov model. I made a tool just like this a few days ago...
I would have said exactly the opposite - Python is opinionated ("only one way to do it"), whilst Ruby is far more perlesque in it's "anything goes" philosophy.
The German idiom translates to "Polish backwards".
PHK has a history of smash hits; he is responsible for much of the work on FreeBSD's container-based virtualisation (jails), modular disk device framework (Geom), & disk encryption (gbde).
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The NY Times is two papers in one dress: a serious newspaper reporting a range of news including political, financial, and basic local stuff; an odd consumerist provider of fluff and distraction. The second paper (Sunday/Thursday Styles, much of the Sunday Magazine, much of the Arts & Entertainment) may not be able to make you stupid, but it damned sure tries.
the only problem with Magento is the fact it is overengeneered! And once you decide to work on it yourself, you will find out no documentation, no community support, etc.

But if you like to model everything - you will like digging in it's code. Just do not forget primary reason you installed magento - sell something to client ))))
Haskell is such a great language and it's a real shame that not many companies see it's advantages. There was recently a discussion on haskell-cafe[1] about it's lack of adoption in industries other than finance.

Haskell is perfectly suited for critical systems: I've seen job postings for C++ programmers for air traffic control systems which I think could really do with haskell's type safety.

In recent years however haskell performance and library availability has made it suitable for general high level programming like web development for example[2][3].

[1]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/78651

[2]http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web

[3]http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/We...
It reminds me how irrelevant Microsoft is nowadays. They are always trying to push their standards without speaking to the community. It worked great for my father with his entire babyboomer-push-driven-information fellows. I don't believe this business would work again.
It depends on the topic that your website specialises in. Determine that, then search for ad networks and rep firms that represent those areas. If you find the right service and you are well know enough within the niche, they will personally pitch your website to their clients.
VCs toss $48M to start-up looking to throw stones at Intel
Yahoo's culture vs. Google's culture
Yahoo is an Internet media/content company. Of course they need developers, but not every place developers work are technology firms of course. Still a lot of great things came from Yahoo! I used YUI for years before switching to Dojo. Steve Souders is a god, and his book on "High Performance Websites" is the bible for building high performance web applications. Too bad for Yahoo! Steve is now at Google.
In general, people smart enough to predict stock trends and understand the macro factors will be working in stocks, not writing second-rate personal finance pieces for the WSJ.

In general, a reputable paper like the WSJ will hire people that are smart enough to predict stock trend and understand the macro factors, people that may be working in stocks, to write finance pieces.

You provide no arguments to support your assertion that the writer is uninformed. The only argument is a single broad stroke that implies that nobody with enough understanding of the subject writes for any newspaper, which is easily refuted by all the articles written by exactly such people over the years.
Dubai is the Pets.Com of the real estate bubble.

There are things like it in China that have yet to crash. Look folks... cities must grow organically. You cannot create an instant New York or London with loads of debt. Buildings do not make a city. Culture makes a city. The buildings are built after the city is built, to contain it.

I also look at Dubai as the peak of something else: the idea that you can literally create reality if you have enough hype. The same idea was beneath a lot of hand-wavey dot.com business plans and bad accounting practices of recent years.
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Chinese engineer creates iPod - phone conversion gadget