skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it costs a pound to start a company in Britain, and by the time you can afford to hire somebody you should be able to hire a lawyer to work through the issues.
How does the fact that a model has two features make understanding one of them pointless?

If you are seeking a grand unified theory of everything, maybe it's pointless. Black Scholes is just a model. If you are seeking to make money, Black Scholes is one tool that can help you do that. And make no mistake - people do make billions trading models which incorporate elements of Black Scholes.
I never thought it was that bad. A little amateurish, but it's homely and friendly. It has its uses.

edit: I just created http://www.comicfuckingsans.com
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No, he was right. The standard model does tell you you can't make money. You are addressing a completely separate issue (hedging risk) in the rest of your post.
Do note this was neither sanctioned nor designed by Google. The guy who built it just happens to work there.
hometime would be a great name - but the com is already gone

you could go for an evolution like theme - originofapps

or maybe something like recap(p)
Have to agree with author and Android developers should just do what Apple/ Apple developers do and leave out features, or just don't support older versions.
Do something positive - leave your job
It seems I have communicated poorly. The point is not that the type info makes the code bad code, but that one-liners are bad code and that one-liners are encouraged by requiring type declarations.
I am considering using Comic Sans all the time now for its ironic value.
Synch all my crap on all my devices.

I own a desktop PC, a macbook pro, a GPS device, a cellphone and an ipod touch.

When I want to drive to a friend, I have to look up his address first, write it down, and then go to my car. Why doesn't my GPS have an address book?

This may be solved by buying a GPS that's actually a smartphone, of course :-)
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Very interesting typographical effect on that page. Looks like a very minimal shadow, but has a huge effect on contrast.
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This essay by CW Hamming may be of interest. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm...
Also, the work of James Austin, professor at Harvard Medical School on successful research. Marvin Minsky, legendary MIT professor, is also interested in the same subject but I don't have a reference. The "Random Walks of George Polya" is also related to the subject. Stanford math professor who specialized in techniques to solve advanced math problems.

This subject would perhaps make a great forum or separate website.
'-ly' is just a very common English morpheme, which also happens to be a TLD. In the age of rapidly expanding domain names, the trend in general has been to find common suffixes that will fit within English phonotactics and morphology, to find words that, though they aren't English words, look like they could be without too much trouble. -(i)ous is another example—a word like 'Historious' (historio.us) is not a word, and is more or less only by chance attested in the OED; certainly it's not in the lexicon of any English speaker today. And yet one knows exactly what it would mean if it were a word.

You want to be ahead of the next trend? Find a proxy in Albania.
For me, what has been most noticeable is his shifting focus. When he started out, he mostly wrote about Lisp and programming languages. Now he primarily writes about startups. Since I'm a lot more interested in the former than the latter, I've gradually stopped reading his newer essays. (Usually a paragraph or two is enough.)
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It only drives desktop Linux for the geeks. Joe and Jane Public don't really know the nuanaces of KDE or Gnome and they don't want to know. They want a product that just works and Apple is really really good at providing that to them.
For a website that's espousing the virtues of minimalism, those sure are some tacky mouseover effects in the header.
This is a great point. For me it isn't poetic at all, but a deductible consequence.

If our job is creating abstractions it must be really hard to create tools which abstract properly our job. Where abstract properly would be separating what is really our job, the abstractions we are creating, and what are the trivial abstractions, the ones we assume as stable. This is a hard path to reach any usefull conclusions or insights to develop new programming tool features. The separation from what are the abstractions we're creating and the abstractions we're building on top off is always changing and it's in the same place (in the code).

For reaching usefull conclusions I would rather think in the different tasks developers need to pursue. Who wants to build a RescueTimeesque tool for developers?

Lisp, with his code is data super-feature, and his REPL super-environment has a lot to say in this two issues.
Export is controlled per US EAR ECCN 3A991A.3.

Could somebody clarify what this means? The only reference to "3A991A" I could find is www.uptodateregs.com/_eccn/ECCN.asp?ECCN=3A991, however there is nothing on that page about a .3 subsection.
Where's this guy's analysis for Oracle's own products? They're usually on my worst offenders list.
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I agree with that generally, but in the case of Python 3, there are real roadblocks at this point, not just intertia. Central pieces are missing. There is not a single postgres adapter that works reliably with Python 2 and 3. It's impossible to write robust web apps using Python 3 because of the WSGI conundrum.

Actually, the situation is very damaging for Python, because Python has momentum _now_ and many new users are confused and put off by the fact that they cannot use the latest Python version for their projects.

Granted, these issues affect mainly web development, which may not be the main concern of a Linux distribution.
"Support paid apps by means of an authorization model that uses existing identity systems like OpenID."

I like the idea of this. I wish it was easier to sell the web apps I build, in a way that's as easy as plugging in OpenID. I've looked at a few services that promise this but they either need US a merchant account or something else I don't have/can't get.
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Totally. I went home and started hacking until the early morning hours like I hadn't done in years.
I don't understand why more people don't get that. Guido has always said it will take a few years for it to all get over to P3. The Django folks are just now deciding when to get Django over to P3. If I have been watching the release notes for P3 versions as they come out and it still seems they are "cleaning up".
It's pretty taboo to drop out of university in the US as well. The article also relies the false causality link between dropping out of university and being successful.

University incubators typically focus on research spin-offs (both in the US and the UK) - while US universities in general are better at this than UK universities, it doesn't really have any relevance to Facebook style companies.

There does seem to be a higher amount of risk-aversion though.
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Actually, you might want relatime rather than atime. Noatime is fine, if you do not rely on read access times, i.e. almost all situations.
I've never done it.
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both good points sir!
Xpath does rock and coloured boxes are definately a technology worth researching!
people trust Libya?
This information is relatively useless to me. Was the old system slower because of the OS, .NET, or some other factor(s)?
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How is rooting your Android phone any different than jailbreaking your iPhone?
My understanding is that this work is in conjunction with Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research: www.viewpointsresearch.org and what they're working on in languages.
I saw a Tweet on this very topic recently:

http://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/26565875780

I thought she had a good point.
It's the same as any other application you install. What stops any application from filling up your hard drive with crap?
Probably easier than iOS, which has the prerequisite of running OSX. A "minor" developer without a Mac needs to buy one or build a hackintosh, both are significantly more work than downloading Android's SDK. And more people know Java than Obj-C, so there's that too.
On the "universities are poor incubators" claim:

Cambridge is probably the top UK university. Every single Cambridge college is (legally) a charity. This means it is illegal to conduct business activities on college premises; in particular, it is illegal to conduct business activities in your college accommodation.
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Lybia will only delete your domain if you gear it specifically towards the adult industry and fail to respond to their inquiries on the matter. I think few startups will fit the bill.
This echoes my experience at a UK university. The 'entrepreneurial' society is borderline inactive apart from the token yearly business plan competition.

Nobody really talks about startups. I've not met a single student who's planning to go it alone after graduation day, let alone drop out. Perhaps that's just the limited demographic occupied by my course mates and other friends.

However we do have Dragon's Den and people are clearly inspired by it - at least in principle. I do wonder whether it's had any affect on the number of startups.
Trusting Lybia with your domain is just sil.ly
It's definitely true that the UK has lots of startups. But I think the problem is that people at universities, or university staff don't even consider it.
Looking at the two best known (to your average consumer) startups in the UK - Betfair and Ocado, both were started by people in their mid 30s. I can't think of many started by people in their early 20s, which I think is a huge oppurtunity being missed.

There is definitely a stigma of failing. It feels like if your startup fails in the USA it isn't too big a problem, you just pick yourself up and start again. In Europe I get the impression that a failed start up reflects poorly on you - leading to a risk averse culture.
Pull It Together
They have an amazing strength which they show by pulling large objects.
Dyson, ARM, Amstrad, Sophos, Betfair, Last.FM immediately spring to mind as Tech Startups that have done well. For a country of our size, resources and population we do extremely well, unnaturally so one might say.
Nokia's earnings call is coming up in a few days. Lets see what type of numbers they put out before declaring the death of Symbian.
> Ask yourself: say you see 2 applicants, one who currently has a job, and one who hasn't for several months. Which one will you most probably want to hire?

The one who hasn't, obviously. (S)he's had several months to develop undirected skillsets on personal projects, is less likely to be burned out, and would be far more likely to happily accept a lower offer.
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This article in The Atlantic is actually written by Alston Chase himself - the gentleman Jad and Robert talk to in the Radiolab piece.
Is it Hard? Or Do You Just Don’ Wanna?
One assumes however that students and recent graduates are living off baked beans anyway

Exactly. Based on observation of people's reaction to me being self-employed, the biggest fears are the bureaucracy and what happens when you fail. Neither of which are anywhere near the biggest challenges, so diminishing those fears seems like an easy target.

It would probably also help to get actual startup entrepreneurs to speak at universities, which by and large are run by people who have never been outside "the system".
and the public don't need to know, they just need to use "Ubuntu" or whatever is installed for them.

I've been actually shocked by the number of people nowadays who have told me that they use Linux at home, let alone the number of people who have heard of it. Ask these people whether they use Gnome or KDE and they won't know. Ask them what Linux they use, and they will: Ubuntu, almost exclusively.
I wrote a similar one for CoffeeScript: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/04/29/instant-coffeescript/ but it uses the HTML5 cache manifest stuff to let it work offline (kind of) like a native app. I wrote to the creator of the JS IDE saying "please do the same!" but actually, I really want it so I'm also doing it myself (and will post him the changes when I'm done).
One big problem is to make it Just Work, especially with your media. Apple's on that.

A small problem: I buy a DVD for my kids at 29$, and they abuse it and within a year I have to buy it again.
That's what I mean: are they really up to fight the whole world about that?
I agree. At these speeds it has less to with OS and/or language and has more to do with smart programming decisions. PS - Singapore Stock Exchange quotes a faster latency than Nasdaq and LSE:

http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/voltaire-powering-fastest...
Windows Phone 7 doesn't support a socket API
I wouldn't exactly describe Dragon's Den as "inspiring" TBH. "Depressing" is the word that more readily springs to mind.
Ok, but is your point that the claim that significant urbanization will take place over the next decade and will boost internal consumption and therefore the Chinese economy is true? Because that's what this guy is saying, that we shouldn't expect too much from that.

From my observation (with all caveats that apply to this), it seems that in the short run people are moving back out of urban areas, taking up the village life, lowering consumption. Maybe this is temporary, I don't know. I'm quite skeptic of counting on significant further urbanization as a major driver of economic growth, though.
I dunno... I'm British and I founded Ryze, a pioneering social network which was a huge influence on Friendster, which in turn led to MySpace and Facebook.

And I never went to high school.

But then again I never lived in Britain, so maybe the article's hypothesis is fine, just not the headline... ;)

And there is the example of Bebo also...
Not only -ly, you also have -ish, -ify, -ist, -ity, -ious and -ible at your disposal. As proven by Spotify, Todoist, Listorious among others. Another option/fad is to name your startup anything you want and then postfix it with -hq, -app or -web for an available domain name.
Complaining about Comic Sans is basically a hate meme. It's a silly ritual that many geeks like to engage in that makes them feel superior to the font bourgeois. Like all memes, participating in it also solidifies their social standing in the practicing group.

Hating on Comic Sans is like hating on Merlot wine because you saw it Sideways.
Well here's a respectable (Western) (I don't imply that 'Western' mean 'respectable', just giving details) professor at Tsinghua, who regularly appears on CCTV on economic issues, who's been making the same claims for a while now, albeit in less dramatic terms: http://chovanec.wordpress.com/ ..
More expensive? Last time i checked .ly were at $100+/yr.
But does it have any predictive power?
Of course it is. Proof in the pudding: iOS has none of it.

You missed my point, which was that the crippling is not Android's fault but that of the carriers and phone manufacturers. Its also not due to some inherent property of iOS that it doesn't have any crapware, but thanks to Apple caring about their customers more than about the carriers.

To Apple, carriers are not customers. They're generally hindrances and they might be partners, but Apple's customers are end-user.

Not so for HTC or moto.

Exactly. But again, this has nothing to do with Android or its openness.
I believe it was the OS from memory. This was around the time Accenture lead development wasn't working out a few years ago.
May seem nit-picky...but its Libya!!!
I was nodding along until he compared Android with Linux desktop. Mmmm.
Does it have properties and method autocomplete?
Out of what I've seen so far, most. I personally have a Nexus One, but my girlfriend's Cliq XT has all kinds of bullshit installed. It has yet to get 2.2, as far as I know, so we'll see if she still gets tethering...
That's so incorrect I don't even know where to start.
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That's basically how Pudong in Shanghai was build. Over 20 years they turned a backward nick in the river from slums into China's jewel for displaying to the world. One day the bulldozers showed up, leveled the area and started building. It's efficient, yes. There's more to a society than 'efficiency' though.
Would you mind sharing? Sounds useful.
> We already have HTML5 for that, why would we need yet another method for the same thing?

Aspects of this are limited for security reasons. Changing the location of the application, to treat it as something different, allows for different levels of security.

> Again... this is all possible with HTML5.

Again, to a limited degree for security reasons.

> Show me a recent native app that has the success rate of Facebook or Twitter.

Just look to Apple's App store as a good example. Look at all the native Twitter apps that people used over the web interface.

> A lot of native apps are just interfaces to web apps.

Yes, and why do you think that is? Because being treated as native apps gives them additional flexibility. With browsers able to "install" web apps, they can provide additional functionality to these applications that otherwise couldn't exist.

> With bookmarking them and making the app use HTML5 app cache.

Yes. So at least your aware that what Mozilla is doing isn't new. Apple's done this. Google's done this. Mozilla is following.

Couple this with other benefits:

1. Having a trusted app store where you can get your apps.
2. Allow for an easy system to setup and sell your app. Envato does this. Apple does this. MS is planning on doing this. Google does this. You also make the assumption that developers can easily accept payments. It's not that easy, unless you bow to the will of PayPal.
3. Mozilla not doing this would leave it behind. Suddenly, if people wanted to use these web apps, they'd have to switch off Firefox.

I've presented many reasons why this is a good thing. You've questioned everything, but offered little in the way of why it's bad. Might you care to offer up reasons why this shouldn't happen?

> Ohhh and let's not forget the "native" applications that in reality wrapped web apps.

Huh? Native apps that are just connect to web API's are still native apps.
> At a certain point, the rank of your app will help to increase the rank of your app.

Do you believe this also applies for users searching for a specific keyword or combination of keywords? The 'above-the-fold' phenomenon. For example, 'baby feeding'? How did you do on keyword searches before you were selected by Apple (though Trainyard is a pretty unique name)?

Congratulations on your inspiring success! Are you going to release the original Tic Tac Toe game now?
There were flying machines before the Wright brothers, i.e. balloons. Likewise there are modestly successful tablets which predate the iPad such as the Fujitsu Stylistic series.
I'd say the opposite: if you can explain something in terms of "x of y", you probably should. Read George Lakoff's stuff :)
Side projects are like children
You mean opinion.
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But I think the problem is that people at universities, or university staff don't even consider it.

Universities have historically not been the place for training up professionals or business people, but pure scholars. The vast majority of staff at universities are in the latter category to this day, probably less so in engineering disciplines or medicine. Expecting them to prepare students for the real world in a job, let alone running a business, is unrealistic. (nobody even teaches you how to do basic things like salary negotiations, forget about raising capital)

I'm not sure what the solution is, but making professors run awkward "soft skills" courses is definitely not it.
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Just wait a bit. The early votes here have become quite insane in the last year or so. The scores still tend to normalize to sane levels later on, though. I wonder how long that will last.

I've upvoted most of your comments in this thread: While they are not brilliant in my book, they are not bad either. And certainly not bad enough to deserve large negatives.
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You've really taken no time to look into this. Your comments are proof. This entire comment is wrong.

> I don't want no payment standard for that

Then don't use it. You don't have to.

> heck I may not even want anyone to know how many users paid for my service.

Then don't use it.

> I may find a service that charges me less than the standard service can offer.

Then use it. Their are other options out there.

> Take a look at the Apple App store: 30% for Apple and the Carriers? for what? ain't that a little bit too much?

CC processing, distribution, and promotion. And an easy way to install apps. Do you find that too much? Than don't develop native apps for iOS.

You can still create web apps, however, and sell them as normal.

> My main point is: mixing financial stuff with technology is simply a dead end.

They aren't mixing it. You can use the technology without the financial stuff. If that's your main point, then it's baseless.
All the best domain names are beings squatted on.
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They certainly would have leverage if they built a phone people really want. This is exactly how Apple gained that leverage.

Alternatively, they could team up with the other manufacturers and boycott carriers which refuse to sell their phones as-is. But they simply don't seem to care about their end-users as much as the carriers (and neither does Google apparently).

edit: spelling.
Your /tmp is on a separate file system than /bin. _Hard_ links point to the same inode, therefore both parts of your link must be on the same file system (as opposed to a soft link, which is a separate inode saying "hey buddy, go over there").

It might work in something like /var/tmp, assuming that's not a soft link to /tmp like some systems do, or a separate file system.
It's quite a stretch and bordering tin-foil-hattiness to claim that the oil and car industry socially engineered society over several decades to a point where they could build-in a need for their products. The process is much more complex than that, and not much social engineering is possible on processes at that scale, especially not the sort of clandestine, subversive social engineering you're implying.

(I've worked on systems that model land use in function of economics, demographics, transport and environmental factors for almost 10 years now, my wife has a PhD on it, and so do most of the people (in those fields) I work with daily. I in no way claim to understand these processes, nobody does, but claiming to know that public transport was deliberately destroyed by special interest groups is intellectually dishonest.)
I managed to do the first exercise on the third try. The most difficult part was maintaining balance, but I found that I tended to shift my balance backwards (maybe because I was afraid to fall over on my face). Once I put some pillows on the floor in front of me as a precaution, I managed to hold the position for about 15 seconds.
I rather pick a .co .me .to instead of .ly
Is this built on the twilio platform? Or did you roll your own?
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