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I was at work on a crappy thin client and first tried to run list(itertools.combinations(sequence)), which was crapping out. After I switched it to itertools.combinations(sequence,i) and put that right into my for loop it was fine.
Ok, I've joined the facebook group, I have an idea and I'll do it.
They probably use a hidden javascript captcha, which falls back to a real captcha if not completed. I'd be hugely surprised if they dropped any kind of bot prevention.

Having said that, maybe they figured "well, bots are getting in with the captcha, so let's just drop it". But I doubt that.
Let's face it, American kids are generally lazy and poorly-disciplined and this is the primary reason that our schools suck. We always want to blame the teachers, teacher unions, school administration when we really have to blame ourselves.

Even much better teachers and organized schools won't be able to educate kids who don't want to learn. Subjects like math, science, and English aren't "boring." American kids are just too lazy to put in the work to appreciate them.

The real gap in American education is an "effort gap."

I attended a lower-middle income Southern California high school with a primarily caucasian and latino student population. Neither group of students cared that much about school and test scores showed it. We did have a great sports teams. The city over the hill, Rowland Heights, had a primarily Asian student population. They had great scores, graduation rates, etc. However, their football team sucked. The asian parents pushed their kids hard to learn. The parents of students at my high school only pushed them on the sports field and not in the classroom.

Pedagogy, class size, quality of teachers, testing/not testing - these things are all important but miniscule in impact when compared to actual student effort. I think charter schools do well in large part to the fact that they attract kids who care. Their success will diminish once you include kids who don't.

Instead of asking "Why Johnny can't read," we should be asking "Why Johnny doesn't get off his ass and study."
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while i agree with your basic point (personal judgement on Gates not adding value to the comment) I'd like to point out that even if someone does some good to non-wasp people he can still be a white supremacist.

E.g. Cecil Rhodes was held in high estimation from the Ndebele people to the point of receiving a king-like burial ritual from them, but he still thought that british were god's gift to mankind.
So if a company (or state government in your example) wants to provide health care benefits to be competitive in the marketplace, they should be penalized for that?

I don't accept your premise that taxes = penalization.

Employers who pay their employees $35,000/yr have to pay more in federal taxes than if they paid their employees $34,000/yr. I don't consider that a penalty either. Its progressive taxation.

Additionally, your statement about "well-paid employees" doesn't seem to fit with the article you quoted. Secretaries and van drivers aren't generally highly paid positions.

"Well-paid employees" referred to Microsoft employees.

The government positions (secretaries & van drivers) mentioned in the article, I would agree, probably aren't highly paid. They have a great health plan because of the unions that represent them and fight for those benefits. If they were non-union, they'd probably have much crappier health plan options.

But as the article said, the value of their plan is $20,400/yr. The excise tax is on whatever amount exceeds $27,500/yr. So they, and the state government they work for, will not be subject to any new taxes under the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

The reason I quoted the article was to show how great a $20,400/yr health plan is. Just imagine the benefits you'd get from a $27,500+/yr health plan. The people who have plans that expensive, most of them executives and other highly paid employees, are not hurting and I could care less if they have to go with a slightly less lavish plan that doesn't cover things like rehab, treadmills and gym memberships or choose to pay what amounts to income taxes on the portion that exceeds $27,500/yr.
Perhaps even more horrible was that there were people who supported the ideas of racial hygiene around the world at the time. Perhaps we're not as civilised as we like to make ourselves out to be.
And a pretty biased opinion at that: "At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause."

Having come from a poor family, my single mother the child of a dirt-poor, subsistence-farming family, and having done fairly well for myself all things considered, I am almost always skeptical of anyone that says the poor don't have a chance. Not that public schooling was much help, but when people spout this garbage, I want to ask them where the hell I came from if the US doesn't give you a fair shake. I've not seen failure from anyone that was truly determined, but I have seen a pampered, upper-middle class tell me I couldn't make it, over and over again. Hell, I've seen my own family tell me I couldn't make it. I could imagine beliving them if I were anywhere else on earth.

The most inspiring thing I've ever seen is Baxter Humby, right after defending his title as super-middleweight Muay Thai champion (with only one arm and at the age of 34, no less) grab the microphone like a giddy schoolboy and tell the stunned audience after his mostly one-sided fight (I have never seen a one-armed man dominate the ring like that) that the only limits we have are those we place on ourselves. I'm thoroughly sick of dour people like the author of this article help people limit themselves.

Humby aside, it's true: you don't need to listen to anyone tell you that you are oppressed here. Prove it to yourself: make enough money to travel abroad, and see if those people are oppressed, to give yourself a point of reference. You'll learn a few things on the way up.
Clever to the point of uselessness. It might get you points in a design class, but in the real world, it's a stupid move. Way to help further erase your already disappearing brand.
Not really too helpful that it only goes to 2006. It would be interesting to see how this looks with PEP 3003 in place (the moratorium on syntax changes) — maybe not much different, but maybe a lot different…
I question the entire notion, seemingly sacrosanct for decades, that one mode of learning should be made compulsory for all. Did we evolve with this mode of learning? No.

And what about the idea that government is somehow the ideal institution to dispense enlightenment? Would we trust it with dispensing the news or even the authoring of a comic book?
Gmail's basic HTML view also has a discard button, even though it doesn't auto-save drafts.

You make a good point, though. Maybe basic HTML just has Discard to stay consistent with standard.
I've got a lot of very small projects going on but I'm afraid that I will never finish any of them. So this is a great opportunity to focus on the last one and don't jump on any of the others until it's finished. Count me in!
Ask HN: How to get closer to the money.
Hey everyone,

I was wondering how to get closer to users directly. I'm a pretty solid programmer and graphic designer but I've never directly interacted with customers - I've only worked corporate jobs. I feel like I need to break out of this loop or else I'll be trapped under this glass ceiling. I can create something, but I just don't know how to turn that into money - or fearing that I won't be able to sell it properly. Any suggestions on steps to take to break out of this mindset?
Stuck for ideas? Here's 999 of them: http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html

I like that page as it's a good reminder that ideas are almost worthless without implementation.
Factor inflation and taxes.
Specifically the "Ballmer Peak" http://xkcd.com/323/
MOvember makes it easier though.. Less face to shave - saving you time every morning.
As HN is primarily in English, and Ycombinator is not yet widely known in Japan, maybe around 15% Japanese or so ?

The Japanese natives that do come along invariably have very interesting backgrounds.
Yes, I agree (~8% over the very long run I think). But it's not timescale invariant. Look at what it's done over the past 10 years, for example (-1%). I'm not trying to say that the stock market doesn't grow over time. I'm just trying to say that if the mean annual growth is truly 8%, it has a really high variance. Thus, there are some things that I wouldn't count on (say, the ability to arbitrage from a 3%-interest loan into straight profit, for example) which I might try to do if the return was consistently 5%. I suppose that for me, when I think conservative, I think consistent.
I was born in '80. (I'm weeks from turning 30.) rdl mostly had it, I think. My parents were mostly vegetarian, and they were poor, or at least wise enough to dump every penny they could get into real-estate.
Why not a posterous blog? I've setup one for private tracking of my progress and you get the best of both worlds.
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The problem is they're trying to do both. Its half graphic, half wordmark. Nike's graphic and its wordmark can survive on their own or appear together. The same can't be said of this. MySpace can't put ____ somewhere and expect people to immediately associate it with MySpace, no matter how much advertising they do to try to ingrain it. Nor can they use "My" alone and expect people to know they really mean "MySpace".

Its just a jolting experience. It invites you to start reading it, which you do, and then you run into this underline shape.
This looks very interesting. Very close to what I was thinking. Thanks
Shame on me for including a link to my book at the bottom of the article. SHAME ON ME!
While I agree that they're often misused in forms, I'm not a 100% convinced that killing the cancel button is the right way to go. They're increasingly used as a web equivalent of the "close" button and in that context, they do function quite well.

A substantial portion of both users and AJAX apps still don't use/support the back button effectively. And when there's a form overlaying the content, using a cancel button to get rid of it does make a fair amount of intuitive sense...
Looks great!!! but what would be the business model?
Exactly. People need to be able to see and identify a logo in a split second. People don't ponder over logos. Like I said up-thread. This isn't a design class.
you're right. Its all the reader's fault.

Its not like any other media is expected to accomodate perception. They usually just give a short lecture to the viewer, right?

yes, its my fault for not squinting correctly.
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Hint: You can only install one version of IE.
If you want to interact with customers find a way to spend some time as a customer support agent. It's an enlightening experience and can often be a good way to grasp how different people are when it comes to how they use computers.

As for fearing that you can't sell something the only way to deal with the fear is to attack it head on. Build something simple that solves a problem that you and your close network (friends and family) have. Do it as a side project so you can fail without too much pain. Wash, rinse, repeat. On each cycle try to expand beyond your network into places where your customers might be. Trade groups, conferences, user groups, etc. Just keep doing until you succeed or decide it's just not what you want to do right now.
> How long should we wait? We have copious evidence of how flawed the current system is.

You could minimize the damage done by "the current system" (control group) by making the majority of schools into testing grounds for various competing educational theories, and see which one produces the best results.
This is wacky beautiful. I look forward to the packaged precompiled plugin so I can try it out myself.

One thing that comes to mind -- it may not be that hard to overwhelm the Mechanical Turk tasks associated with Soylent to reach a situation where I see every single Soylent task from a single document. It's an interesting question to calculate how many people you would need, given the volume of Soylent usage.

The point is that if I control every single worker on your Soylent task, then I can lean a lot about your document. That in turn could lead to exciting conversations with your IT department.
If you could look through a (linear) polarizing filter oriented at 45 degrees from the vertical, you could kill off most of LCD displays. Unfortunately, sunglasses with polarizer are usually polarized at the wrong angle, so you have to tilt your head to see the effect (black screens).
It would be interesting to see more startups in the genetic programming area (or related). Once/if reaching singularity I'm sure there's gonna be more than bread and circuses.
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Do you still have the parser from 'wen'? Seems like it could still be put to good use if it worked well enough.
Something smells - and it smells oddly like that supposed BP oil spill microbe.
My first major side project was http://gambolio.com - a browser based iTunes-style app for online games. Despite getting featured on the New York Times's website, the app struggled to attract many visitors.

So my wife and I set up a blog - http://casualgirlgamer.com - in an attempt to promote it. The blog has become quite popular - more than 100,000 uniques a month - and we're now focusing completely on the blog rather than the app we originally set it up to promote.

We're not yet making enough to give up our jobs but we're having fun and have high hopes.
It's not cartographic design, it's styling (waaaay different).
ForumGlance: Had a similar idea just the other day, although mine was mostly to watch to buy some cheap things/bid on auctions etc. Probably since I'd handpick the forums it'd be easier to tailor the parser though.
Progressive enhancement is a better way of dealing with hover and similar features than avoiding them altogether.

When I'm using PC, mouse and a non-Lynx browser, I absolutely want to take advantage of JavaScript, hover and any other feature that would make it easier for me.

It's just that the designer should make sure everything works even when these features are not available (e.g. on a touch screen).
Yeah this is definitely not for sensitive documents. Users have enough trouble already distinguishing between native and web applications, public and private, etc… Now you need to explain the difference between AI and non-AI computation.
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Mobile Dev platforms - Anyone have a preference?
We are moving forward with putting our app on mobile and are investigating Sencha, Jqtouch, Appcelarator.

We are leaning towards appcelarator since its seems to build something closer to native apps. Where as the others seems to use front end html/js to replicate functionality. Any insights would be appreciated
Awesome! I'm really happy someone made it.
Ask HN: Why there is so much advertising crap around?
Dear HN'ers, please help me, because I can't comprehend this. Why is there so much advertisement crap around? Is it even working for advertisers? I don't see any proof for that when I look at people. On the contrary, it is now common knowledge, that one shouldn't start using the Web without AdBlock or NoScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772025). In Poland, people using the most popular Instant Messenger there install 3rd party plugins or escape to open source clients just to avoid flash ads. We have Commercial skipping technology for TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping) and other projects (like recently mentioned on HN http://unlogo.org/) designed to avoid or remove advertising content. Hell, there is even a psychological phenomenon of "banner blindness" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness)! And there are bloggers, entrepreneurs, etc. writing and talking (http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html) about honesty, user experience, and about how providing something valuable is the best way to get money in the long run. So please, tell me, why are we doing it to each other? What value is in producing those boatloads of crap that no one wants to see?
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Steer clear of registering a domain in a country you're not actually in...
Appcelerator seems to be the right choice, however developing a 'complex' application (ex: Twitter client) won't be an easy ride.
I second aeden's comment. It wasn't until I had the customer service email inbox routed to me that I realized how certain things we were doing could make a difference in customer experience. They were easy things to fix as well. Not to mention all the great ideas these customers gave me.

As far as the - how to make money part - that is very broad question. Try finding a few businesses or consumers that have a problem. Think of a solution. It would be great if you could speak with them before you start building. Partly because it will help you know what to build. And partly because they will feel like they helped build it and are likely to become customers and potentially evangelists. Many designers and programmers are afraid of selling. Don't think if this as selling though. Think of it as R&D as it truly is at this point.
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If they contacted you or not, is completely irrelevant.

And I guess that they did contact you, but if you would acknowledge it now, it would come out that you were lying big from the start.
Okay, I agree that “you also need skill in the ‘small’ – 10 or 20 line methods”, but almost all of these can be implemented in 1 or 2 lines.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740796
SO you'd go native in that case?
The same way people has complained for years about Linux drivers support. They don't care their printer or modems, or webcams manufacturers don't give technical info about their devices, they just want their devices to work as they are used to.

Ironically, now Linux support way more devices than Windows, and let you do things that no commercial vendor is going to let you do(e.g I have used an old scanner as spectrogram with very little money).
thank god we now have ipods

but seriously babbage should have stuck some beeswax in his ears

alternatively, he could live in a tower like a proper wizard
Profit or not, it would be incredibly foolish for I or any other person to buy Yahoo stock given their decade+ pattern of behavior of expending exorbitant amounts of money to buy companies that a) are not worth that much and b) eventually killing the companies they purchase. If Groupon is to succeed, I think they are best to remain independent at least for a few years and really try to grow their company. Personally, I'm tired of seeing potentially long-term successful companies being purchased and mangled by bigger companies that can't successfully expand or incorporate those startups.
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I am aware of the corporate veil and the piercing thereof, but I'm not really convinced that assets are among the most important things a jury would like at. And surely it varies among industries (so a real estate investment firm would require more in assets than an internet startup in order to be considered "proper").
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Argh! I'm arriving in Tokyo... at 6am on Oct 17th! I'm going to be there for 2 months though (in a Shinjuku apt), and would love to meet any fellow hackers if anyone is up for a post HN-Meetup drink? Thanks all! (And apologies for the FB-like message on HN; I know, I know...)
I really believe Appcelerator has the right approach in providing a solution for easy, quick, cross platform with native look and feel apps but they aren't there yet. I use Appcelerator for prototyping and if necessary I'll go for native app.
Nice job! I like how un-PC it is. You could probably even get it banned in Germany if you added a swastika.
You started with this:

> Somebody should make a tool that people can point to crappy websites and reformat them into something pleasant to read.

As already mentioned: there is already a tool and you need to use it only once -- it's the configuration of defaults of your browser.
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compare/contrast: 1.3 years ago

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